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March 1, 2007

C5 World Forum in Milan

The IEC will bring together in Milan key ICT players from around the world to present cutting-edge information on next-generation networks and architectures expanding the focus of the program to include network convergence and IMS development and applications.

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March 5, 2007

Worldwide MVNO using call-back

While MVNO are still lacking in Italy, an Italian company launched a worldwide MVNO service based on call-back technology.

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Mobile tariffs will never be the same again

Effective today, all Italian mobile network operators dropped the 'recharge fee' used to be applied to pre-paid customers every time they bought credit, as mandated by a recent Government decree supporting consumer advocates.

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March 6, 2007

Elitel Telecom sold to ViveLaVie

The controlling stake of Italian operator Elitel Telecom (AIM:ETM) has been sold by investment fund Kiwi II to another Italian small OLO: Vive La Vie.

March 7, 2007

Is the “per call” fee dead as well?

After being banned to charge an extra fee for every recharge operation by pre-paid customers, Italian mobile network operators risk losing also the lucrative “per call” fee they charge as soon as a call is established.

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March 11, 2007

Telecom Italia FY 2006 results

Revenues for Telecom Italia group in FY 2006 reached € 31,275 m, with an organic growth of 2.9%. EBIDTA was € 12,850 m, with an organic growth of 0.8%.

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March 13, 2007

Swisscom to buy Fastweb

Swisscom expressed its intention to acquire, through a public tender offer, the shares representing the entire capital stock of Fastweb at a price of € 47 per share.

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March 16, 2007

Telecom Italia in 2009

According to what Telecom Italia told earlier this week to the financial community, the customer portfolio for international operations would in 2009 account for around 48% of the entire Group and revenues from international operations would grow from the current 16% (approx.) of the total revenues to 30% (approx.) in 2009.

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March 19, 2007

UMTS vs. flat rate ADSL in Italian households

According to a recent research by ANIE, Italian households do embrace more and more technology, but they are really still in love only with their mobile phones.

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March 20, 2007

Tiscali to launch IPTV service

Tiscali confirmed it is planning to launch an IPTV service in Italy next quarter.

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New dual-mode Wi-Fi / GSM handsets from Pirelli

Pirelli Broadband Solutions, will launch its new range of dual-mode GSM-WiFi handsets at the C5 World Forum next week.

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March 23, 2007

Schmid to deliver G.SHDSL modem all over Italy

Schmid Telecom has been selected by Telecom Italia and wins another delivery contract for Watson TDM (G.SHDSL) modems, to be installed all over Italy.

March 25, 2007

Italtel FY 2006

Italtel's revenue for 2006 totalled € 546.1 m, in line with € 545.8 m in 2005; Ebitda amounted to € 114.8 m corresponding to 21% of revenue.

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March 26, 2007

Telecom Italia’s NGN2 ultra-broadband access strategy

A few more details have recently been disclosed by Telecom Italia about its NGN2 (next generation network) investments.

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Italian Post to become MVNO

The Italian Post Office (Poste Italiane) announced today its plan to become a mobile virtual network operator.

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March 27, 2007

NGN2 live demo at C5 World Forum

A live demo of the NGN2 project announced by Telecom Italia has been unveiled at the C5 World Forum in Milan. The demo illustrates the bandwidth potential of fibre-based network access infrastructure, capable of speed up to 50 Mbit/s over a FTTB-VDSL2 architecture.

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March 30, 2007

Retail chain COOP is the first Italian MVNO

At last a MVNO in Italy. As expected, the retail giant COOP became Italy’s first virtual mobile carrier, which is launching a range of services marketed under the ‘COOPVoce’ brand.

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