Incumbent Telecom Italia has yet to submit its own superfast broadband proposal to Italian communications regulator Agcom, Agcom chief Corrado Calabro told Reuters.
On the sidelines of an Italian Senate works committee, he was cited saying that the…
Incumbent Telecom Italia has yet to submit its own superfast broadband proposal to Italian communications regulator Agcom, Agcom chief Corrado Calabro told Reuters.
On the sidelines of an Italian Senate works committee, he was cited saying that the operator ought to submit an offer, in order to enable Agcom to take its position into consideration when drafting access rules.
Telecom Italia CEO Franco Bernabe has been fighting Agcom’s suggestion that his company team up with the likes of Wind Italia, Vodafone Italy and Fastweb to roll out nationwide high-speed internet. Agcom argues that a partnership would be more efficient and also faster.
Concerned that this could be passed into law, Telecom Italia says that such a move would contravene the constitution, which guarantees companies the ability to make profits.
The operator has instead announced plans to plough some US$12bn into its network by 2012. In September, Bernabe said that six Italian cities would have broadband speeds of 100 megabits per second by Christmas.