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Recchi (Telecom): “Well the government’s plan on the Digital Agenda ‘- Il Sole 24 Ore

Recchi (Telecom): "Well the government's plan on the Digital Agenda '- Il Sole 24 Ore

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This article was published on February 23, 2015 at 19:36.
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“The Government is pursuing the digital agenda with great seriousness and his plan has the to ponder about a balanced demand and supply of ultra-wideband. ” It’s positive remarks of the president of Telecom Italy, Giuseppe Recchi, the Piano Band Ultrawide that the government is going to final approval by the Council of Ministers

Recchi intervened in Falerna (Catanzaro) at the conference on ultra-wideband in Calabria. A conference to publicize the progress in broadband infrastructures framework in Calabria, the region in which Telecom is working to bring passive optical infrastructure enabling the next generation networks (Ngan) in 223 new municipalities, through a total investment of more than 100 million EUR distributed as follows: 63.5 million of public funding through the use of European funds ERDF and 36.6 million allocated by Telecom Italy.

All this follows the Strategic Project ultrawide band: He put the project to bring the ultra-wideband network (from 30 to 100 Mbps) in areas “market failure”. In practice, in those areas where operators would not have convenience to invest the state decides to intervene by cr eating the conditions for the investment becomes affordable. How? With notices put up thanks to the incentive model: the public puts some of the money while the rest (30%) is by operators who win the tender. And that will keep concession network and artifacts (taking care of the maintenance) leaders by the rent to other operators. The project was born in early 2013. Since then Telecom has won all the calls made in the regions “compete”: five South Italy together with Lazio and Molise. Throughout it comes to 357.9 million euro of public funds went to the only operator that has decided to participate in the calls, say from Infratel, the in-house company of the Ministry of Development, responsible for drawing up the calls and follow the progress the game.

Since the start of the work in mid-November to today, Telecom Italy has already achieved 30% of the operations covered by the project, with over 700 street cabinets connected to the fiber optic, and launched services ultra-broadband in Rende and Squillace, the first two common “pilot” where the jobs are completed. “We hope that the availability of this modern infrastructure will stimulate the private and the public administration to develop new services, thus projecting us towards a model of digital life can improve the quality of life of citizens and to increase the productivity of enterprises “, said the Chairman of Telecom Recchi remembering that the business plan presented last week by Telecom” provides in Italy, in the period 2015-17, a total investment of 10 billion euro. This will enable us to achieve nationally 75% of the population with the optical fiber and over 95% with the 4G end of the plan. ”

Meanwhile, regional president Mario Oliverio said that “Calabria will
between the Italian and European regions with the connectivity system with higher capacity and geographical distribution . We want to seize opportunities arising therefrom, proposing
Calabria as a region of excellence in digital. The prospect that opens, through the development of digital services for enterprises, associations and citizens, is
enormous, able to radically change our region and to open overtime scenarios of evolution in terms of social growth and economic development in all sectors, from welfare to health care, from transportation to the government of the
territory, production systems, to cultural heritage, tourism. “



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