Vodafone, Fastweb and Wind together for the new network at bay wide. News

May 10

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For the moment we are at a proposal. Detailed, but still of
is proposed. e Vodafone hanno già recapitato alle What Fastweb, Wind and Vodafone have already delivered to
authorities asking them to start the project creation
the "new company" that will create the next generation network and
bring fiber optic Internet to all Italians (replacing in its entirety
copper pair). A society that will involve operators
telco (none
excluded) and public and private, to be understood,
these intentions, as a step in the municipality.

The ultra broadband infrastructure project on a national basis to
an initiative license plate Fastweb, Wind and Vodafone, illustrated
officially to the press today (Friday May 7th ed) by Milan
CEOs of three companies, is clear in intent but
difficult to understand how can be translated into actions on the ground.

A project that seems to have found the rating of the government and
Deputy Paul
Romans, but has already warned that, to give shape to
NGN project, the fact is essential to involve Telecom Italy.
I welcome the joint initiative, in short, but leave out a priori
the former monopoly company is not possible. The point, photographed
perfectly by the President 's Agcom Corrado Calabrò, is whether Telecom
prepared to do the next generation network with the three operators. Between
calls for dialogue, winks and positions is what gives hope
that by the guarantor for communications rules so
desired reach and will not be sewn on to a project in
particular. Then that of Vodafone, Fastweb and Wind is a move
to beat box, ie to obtain better conditions for work
as competitors of Telecom, there may also be, although direct
parties have used many other arguments to present
officially.

The pilot in Rome: 7400 houses from copper to fiber by July

The project submitted to the institutions provide, says the note
issued jointly by the three companies, the creation of a single network, "Fiber To The Home
(FTTH)
Point to point mode, which will direct the houses and
business connections and enable faster performance and
reliability than the current copper network with the additional
benefit from lower maintenance costs typical of the fiber.

The numbers of the wiring plan are already known: cover
15 cities for about 10 million people within five years with a
investment of around 2.5 billion euros, to be distributed among all
actors and institutions involved with balance and financial arrangements
in nine years (in
best).

In a second step, the extension would tap into the network FttH
5-0 years 500 municipalities
with more than 20,000
population and achieve 50% of the population
Italian. All with an additional expenditure of 8.5 billion euros and an
economic return estimated at 11 years. The first steps are certain, this
project will be seen in Rome, where Fastweb, Wind and Vodafone have already
launched the first pilot testing of a high-fiber network
performance and open to operators in the Fleming Hill.

The stated aim is to achieve point to point connections (the
fiber cable running from the center directly to the customer
without passing through a station, technically called "splitter"
intermediate) to 7400 housing units by the end of July 2010.
The area,
The spokesman said the three companies, was chosen because
Representative of a catchment area served by several operators (Telecom
Italy compresas). To them the privilege to test the benefits of
transition from the copper pair to fiber optic link on the Web
download videos and watch TV via the Internet. A passage under the
cost for the user should be completely painless.