Telecoms: Italy

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

From a joint Fastweb-Vodafone press release:

The first example of this cooperation is the launch of Vodafone Casa FASTWEB. This solution enables customers, when at home, to use their cell phones to make calls to all fixed-line and mobile numbers, benefiting form the low costs of a landline phone, and install an ADSL modem giving them broadband access at speeds of up to 20 Mbps, thanks to FASTWEB’s optic fibre network.

Customers of the two companies will at the same time be offered Vodafone Infinity FASTWEB, a convergent offering for calls between Vodafone mobile phones and FASTWEB’s fixed-line devices.The agreement marks the first stage of an alliance that will lead to the launch of new products for business customers, and commercial initiatives designed to benefit everyone choosing to become acustomer of the two operators.