CLICK HERE TO READ THE JUDGMENT OF THE TAR ON THE APPLICATION OF FASTWEB
According to Ultralarga Band Piano (BUL), carried out on 3 March 2015 and officially launched on 1 January 2018 by 31 December 2022 6,232 municipalities will need to be covered by a fast connection. Attention because the dates are important: the BUL Plan was conceived and implemented when – good times … – Covid was comparable as a probability to the landing of aliens and no one imagined that there would be a Pnrr to write in black and white the centrality of digital in our lives. In September 2021, however, the municipalities completed are 1,803, or just over 30%.
Today, even more so, having an efficient connection means not only that everyone (and not just the inhabitants of big cities) can benefit from a stable network that allows them to work and to pass enormous amounts of data along the nodes of the Italian internet. . Well, according to the official website of the Ultra Broadband Plan, the first goal was that 85% of the population would be reached by a connection of at least 100 Mbit / sec by 2020.
But according to the Desi report, as of December 31st Italy was in 17th place for “Connectivity”: only 13% of Italian households had a fixed network subscription of at least 100 Mbit / s, while the EU average is 26%.
Now it comes another twist: the TAR accepted Fastweb’s appeal against Infratel which will then have to provide the documentation with which Open Fiber was awarded the tenders in 2017. A request that until now Infratel itself had tacitly denied, but which now must be made operational within 30 days.
In the device (which Affaritaliani.it can publish in full) we read that “knowledge of the required documents is therefore essential to understand to what extent the costs on the basis of which OF obtains public aid have been modified and to assess whether the access prices of the OF List for the white areas do not must in turn be modified ”as regards Fastweb. But it is obvious that all telecom operators will now be able to try to better understand what is happening.
The progress report (https://bandaultralarga.italia.it/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Relazione-Stato-avanzamento-BUL_final_30062021.pdf) also states that “for each of the 4 phases of tender 1 and 2 and for the three phases of race 3 (these are different tenders awarded by OF, ed) were found delays on the part of Open Fiber in the presentation of the final design e the related contractual penalties were applied for these delays for a total amount of € 3,808,750. Infratel Italia checks all final projects to verify compliance with contractual obligations and approves them “.
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