Telecoms: Italy

After having recently disposed also of its Dutch operation, Tiscali announced a new three-year plan (2007- 2010) focusing on Italy and the UK only.
According to an official statement of the Board of Directors,

Tiscali will transition from Isp to full-service provider, delivering telecommunication and media integrated services to the end customer (with the relevant expansion on the physical access, voice and Iptv markets), through a full network and service IP model combining product innovation and marketing aggressiveness.

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The Italian subsidiary of Skype is recruiting new people and is expected to launch the SkypeIn service using nomadic numbering according to the new VoIP regulation.

Pirelli Broadband Solutions is supplying dual-mode GSM/Wi-Fi handsets to German operator Arcor (part of Vodafone group) and French operator Free (part of Iliad group).

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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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The VoIPex consortium, supported by many institutions and several telecom operators and equipment vendors is pushing hard in order to run and to certify interoperability tests for VoIP applications.

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Parla.it decided to abandon the H.323 protocol favouring SIP for its VoIP services.

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