Italian TV companies want in on single network plan
Italy’s national broadcaster Rai appears to be looking at in buying into the country’s single high-speed network, and there is interest from the private sector too.
Italy’s national broadcaster Rai appears to be looking at in buying into the country’s single high-speed network, and there is interest from the private sector too.
Italian incumbent TIM is evidently still keen to prove mmWave spectrum is worth all that money.
As expected, Telecom Italia’s board has approved a plan to spin off its fixed access network and merge it with altnet Open Fiber.
TIM. The Italian incumbent will get its wish to control the country’s proposed single high-speed network, if it agrees to a plan the government is about to present to its board.
TIM and the Italian government appear to be approaching common ground over the future of Italy’s broadband network.
The Italian government wants TIM to get involved in a national broadband monopoly but not control it. Tim’s not so keen.
TIM is trumpeting its latest efforts to connect underserved areas to high-speed broadband, a move that could well allow it to retain control of its – and Italy’s – fixed infrastructure.
Italy’s Government once again pushes for fibre asset merger to create single fibre-to-the-premise network.
Italian operator TIM has invited nearly everyone except Huawei do bid for work on its 5G core networks according to a report.
Only a matter of days after Sky Italia expanded its offering, Iliad has inked a broadband wholesale agreement with Open Fiber to drive towards the convergence dream.
Sky Italia has confirmed it will expand its broadband footprint in the Italian market as it seemingly eyes up the convergence dream.
Telecom Italia (TIM) has announced it has sold stakes in mobile tower group INWIT to French private equity firm Ardian and Canson Capital Partners, collecting €1.6 billion in the process.
The latest numbers from analyst firm Counterpoint reveal the European smartphone market shrank by 7% in Q1 2020, but there was considerable variation between vendors and countries.
Telecom Italia (TIM) has released its latest financial results, revealing painful battle scars as European nations continue to fight the coronavirus pandemic.
Disruptive French telco Iliad has reported 6.9% growth in consolidated revenues for the three months to March 31, but depressed device sales took some of the shine off.
Less than a month after completing the merger of their towers businesses, Vodafone and TIM have sold an equal chunk of it each to raise some cash.
Although Italian networks seem to be holding-up under the increased traffic, data from Opensignal and MedUX suggests there has been material levels of service degradation.
The towers transaction in between Telecom Italia and Vodafone has negotiated all the regulatory hurdles, while the Vodafone and TPG merger down under has gotten the US greenlight.
Aside from Italy, subscriptions grew slightly across the Three European footprint, though a 17% increase in total revenues should be taken with a pinch of salt.
AT&T has announced it will suspend download limits on its broadband products in response to the coronavirus outbreak.
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