Telecoms: Italy

The monthly rental charge for Telecom Italia’s retail customers will go up 1.5% from next January to € 14.80.

The Nigerian national power utility chose Italian specialist Selta to design and deploy an high tech nationwide telecom network exploiting the high voltage power line grid.

Fastweb has chosen to enhance its national network with the Cisco Internet Protocol Next-Generation Network (IP NGN) architecture. This upgrade, implemented by Italtel, a Cisco strategic alliance partner, will expand Fastweb's national network capacity and enhance quality-of-service (QoS) capabilities in order to support the rising demand for standard- and high-definition video services and the continuing growth of its consumer and business customer base.

Vodafone is going to broadcast mobile TV premium content supplied by SKY Italia on its mobile-TV network based on DVB-H technology.

Nokia and Wind have signed a three-year frame agreement for the turnkey supply of Nokia's WCDMA 3G radio network solution in 9 out of the 20 regions in Italy, including Nokia Flexi WCDMA Base Station, Nokia NetAct and a range of managed services.

After a lot of speculation about it, there are still no MVNO in Italy, but its seems we are a step closer now.

MGM Production Group it the Italian company that won a license to operate a WiMAX service in the Bayern region in Germany, including the city of Munich.

Mobile VAS specialist Kelyan Lab changed its name into Xaltia.

Wind announced that it has now more than 1 m customers directly connected to its network connected through ULL (Unbundled Local Loop), the biggest number among OLOs in Italy

Yesterday Telecom Italia opened to wholesale operators its new ADSL2+ access network with Ethernet-based backhauling.

3 Italia is to commercially launch an Enhanced Uplink HSPA service in early 2007.

After a long row amont its Ministers, the Italian government finally agreed to free 35+35 MHz in the 3.4÷3.6 Ghz band (currently used by the Armed Forces) for WiMAX use by June 2007.