Italy: black sweater also in broadband – Globalist.it

Italy: black sweater also in broadband – Globalist.it

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Only the 47th position in the world for our country with an average of 5.2 megs, which is less than a quarter of the speed of South Korea.

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Tuesday, October 7, 2014 21:39

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Italy is at the bottom of the standings although there is talk of the benefits of broadband fixed network. According to the quarterly newsletter disseminated by AGCOM, our country is on the 47th place in the world, with an average speed of just 5.2 megs. Compared to other countries, the average speed of Italian is less than a quarter of that of South Korea and less than Germany, France and the United Kingdom. Furthermore, according to these data, only 1.6% of the Italian lines is able to support video services of high quality.
 

The Italians also no longer change mobile operator: in fact, compared to previous years, where there has been a price war, now the situation is status quo. According to the Observatory quarterly AGCOM, the mobility index, ie the ratio given by the complex of lines donated / acquired during the period and the overall average customer base, it is in fact collapsed in the second quarter of 2014 from 20% to 12 , 6%. In any case, the total flow lines from the beginning of the service are 71.5 mln.
 

Telecom Italy has recorded in the fixed telephone network in the last 12 months, a decrease in total which is around 1.8% to stand at 61.4%. Over the past two years, however, Telecom has lost almost 1.5 million lines. Wind has maintained stable positions instead of 13.5%, while Fastweb has confirmed the growth trend, touching 10% (+ 0.8%) and consolidating the gap against Vodafone, which is 9.5% fermatoal .