News and comments about the Italian telecommunications market
An administrative court (TAR) blocked the fastest ADSL service offered by Telecom Italia, branded Alice 20 Mega. The Court ruled that Telecom Italia cannot sell Alice 20 Mega because it does not offer a suitable wholesale service to other OLOs and ISPs.
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Italian OLOs has the right charge Telecom Italia a much higher interconnection rate than in the reverse direction. This is the controversial decision taken by the National Regulatory Authority (AGCOM) to foster infrastructure-based competition in the fixed line Italian market.
“Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNO) can help lower retail prices. If current MNOs will not sign any MVNO agreement by year’s end, we will likely introduce regulatory measure in order to facilitate this happening”, said Roberto Calabrò, president of the National Regulatory Auhority (AGCOM) at the yearly review conference held at the Italian Parliament.
Mobile number portability (MNP) has been suffering for a long time in Italy due to massive demand by consumers. In country with a mobile penetration rate in excess of 120%, MNP is an increasingly important tool to foster competition.
In order to help easing the backlog of MNP requests, the National Regulatory Authority ordered all mobile network operators to increase the minimum number of number portability requests handled per day.
The Ministry of Communications has started the procedure to assign numbers for the nomadic VoIP service (55xxxxxxxxx) as planned by the new VoIP rules.
Every operators can currently ask for up to 50 blocks of 1.000 numbers each.
Each block costs €11,10.
Numbers will be assigned on a first-come first-served basis.
