The Italian National Regulatory Autority (AGCOM) banned the new convergent fixed-mobile UMA service due to be launched by Telecom Italia next July.
AGCOM ordered Telecom Italia to suspend its planned UNICO service because it cannot be replicated by alternative operators due to lack of an equivalent wholesale offer
Monthly Archive for June, 2006Page 3 of 5
Italian engineering company Sielte bought the local “Build and Service Engineering” division from Siemens. Sielte is one of the main Italian contractor that designs, deploys, installs and test mobile radio sites. Thanks to this acquisition, Sielte will add 80 people to its workforce.
From next July, MIX (Milan Internet eXchange) will adopt a new pricing scheme for Internet peering traffic.
Continue reading ‘Biggest Internet peering exchange adopts to adopt a new pricing scheme’
Mobile number portability (MNP) has been suffering for a long time in Italy due to massive demand by consumers. In country with a mobile penetration rate in excess of 120%, MNP is an increasingly important tool to foster competition.
In order to help easing the backlog of MNP requests, the National Regulatory Authority ordered all mobile network operators to increase the minimum number of number portability requests handled per day.
At last someone is starting to compete with Telecom Italia in the broadband wholesale market. Tiscali Business Services has recently improved its wholesale portfolio. It now offers also wholesale ADSL2+-based services and co-locations thanks to its own nation-wide backbone and ULL sites.
Italtel will soon be floated on the Milan Stock Exchange. This company is the only survived Italian ‘national champion’ in the telecom equipment sector. Its roots date back to the year 1921 and the company has historically been one of the key supplier of the incumbent Telecom Italia, which still owns about 20% of it.
The Milan-based company survived several ‘revolutions’ and reinvented himself more than once, it is focusing now on softswitches for Next Generation Networks.
