Monthly Archive for September, 2006

Telecom Italia – Sony content licensing deal

Telecom Italia and Sony Pictures Television International (SPTI) have struck a deal to offer on-demand major blockbuster movies from the US movie studio Telecom Italia’s TV via Internet service and Telecom’s Italia ADSL portal.

Retelit chooses Siemens for its new DWDM network

Siemens Communications Italia won a turn-key contract from Retelit to supply DWDM equipment operating at 40 Gbit/s.

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Telecom Italia bought AOL Germany

Despite the current turmoil in the company, Telecom Italia was able to successfully bid for the German operation of AOL.
The Italian incumbent bought AOL Germany from Time Warner for € 675 million.

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Telecom Italia has a new chairman

A few days after announcing a sudden change of strategy, Marco Tronchetti Provera stepped down as chairman of Telecom Italia.

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Telecom Italia Unico becomes Unica

Just a few days after abandoning its convergent strategy, Telecom Italia finally launched its long delayed Unico Wi-Fi/GSM service. Actually, Telecom Italia changed the name (and gender in the Italian language) from Unico to Unica.

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Fastweb and Vodafone to offer convergent services

Fastweb and Vodafone announced their first fixed broadband and mobile convergent offer targeted to consumers.

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