Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Fiber optics, agreement between the Province of Trento and Telecom Italy

Lorenzo Dellai, president of the Autonomous Province of Trento and Franco Bernabe, chief executive of Telecom Italy, signed in the morning today a memorandum of understanding that lays the foundation for creating a fiber optic network of new generation, the so-called NGN , Next Generation Network. The objective of the agreement is to arrive within a few months, the foundation of a joint venture that will handle the coverage fiber about 150 thousand residential units, approximately 60% of all households in the province.

The company will be born from this joint venture agreement: 51% belong to the province, while 49% of Telecom Italy. The province has also confirmed that the new company will be open to other operators and they have already begun the first contacts with Wind, Fastweb and Vodafone Italy. The new project will enable ultra-broadband connections for the benefit of local government, health agencies, the University and local research institutes, and course of business and of all citizens.

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