Telecoms: Italy » Wind

750,000 IPTV subscribers by end of 2009

Cazzani — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:52:42 +0000

According to the Italian IPTV industry trade group, by the end of 2009 there will be about 750,000 subscribers to IPTV services, currently offered by Telecom Italia, Fastweb and Wind.

OTA Italia: Office of the Telecoms Adjudicator Italian style

Cazzani — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 08:08:03 +0000

A new ”mediator” in the Italian telecom regulatory environment was born yesterday.

Modeled after the British Office of the Telecoms Adjudicator-UK, the new OTA Italia office aims to prevent fighting among incumbent Telecom Italia and other OLOs licensed to operate in the country.

This move is part of a process agreed by Telecom Italia and AGCOM regarding the transparent and independent management of the access network following the creation of Telecom Italia’s Open Access division.

The founding members of OTA Italia include the regulatory authority AGCOM, operators BT, Fastweb, Opitel, Tiscali, TWT, Vodafone, Wind, and small providers’ societies AIIP and Assoprovider.

President of OTA Italia has been named Guido Vannucchi, a 70+ years old industry veteran and a former CEO of Alcatel Italia.

TIM brand valued US$m 4,476

Cazzani — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 09:59:09 +0000

Accordind to the independent brand valuation consultancy Intangible Business, the TIM brand has a value of $ 4,476 m, while the Wind brand has a value of $ 1,464 m.

Intangible Business published the first of what will become an annual league table of the 100 most valuable mobile telecoms brands in the world.
Over 500 of the world’s biggest mobile telecoms brands were analysed using historical financial data and qualitative expert panel data – providing unique insight into each brand’s financial contribution and strength in the eyes of the consumer.
According the the report, the TIM is 15th in the world by value, while Wind is 45th.

MVNO agreements in Italy

Cazzani — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 20:41:27 +0000

A summary of MVNO agreements announced in Italy.

TIM:

Coop
Tiscali
Noverca

Vodafone:

Poste
Carrefour
BT
Conad

Wind:

Autostrade
Auchan

Fastweb
50&Più Fenacom

Coop was the first the launch its service last June and it has now signed 100.000 customers.

Wind cuts recharge fee for mobile

Cazzani — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 03:34:26 +0000

Wind decided to abolish any extra fee to its pre-paid customer paying for a recharge. If they pay €50, they will get a €50 value (rather than only €45 as before).

In response to a popular petition launched by Andrea D’Ambra, Italian mobile operators are under investigation by the European Commission for their consolidated habits of charging a flat fee of €5 for each ‘recharge’ operation.
Wind recently broke the ranks and cut the recharge fee for its popular €50 recharge (while keeping it for its smaller €25 recharge, that has a real value of only €20)
Surprisingly, most Italian consumers (over 90% of them are on pre-paid contracts) had so far silently tolerated this ‘recharge fee’ applied by all mobile operators since the pre-paid model became popular in the ‘90s.
The National Regulatory Authority opened an investigation on the recharge fee a few months ago (were they so busy regulating something else during the last ten years?) but so far no decision had been taken.
Wind is probably feeling that is better to offer some cuts to this fee rather than having it banned sooner or later by the NRA of the European Commission.