FiberCop
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Swisscom’s Italian broadband company, Fastweb, has promoted Walter Renna to be CEO from October.
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Open Fiber, the independent wholesale fibre company, is to supply its network to TIM’s FiberCop to connect at least 500,000 homes.
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Independent Italian operator TLC Telecomunicazioni is to use FiberCop infrastructure to deliver 1Gbps fibre to the homes of customers in seven towns.
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FiberCop has partnered Netoip to enable fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) to be developed as part of the FiberCop network co-investment project.
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FiberCop, TIM's infrastructure operator, has signed an agreement with AfinnaOne to jointly develop the Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) access market.
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Swisscom saw operating income increase 4.9% year over year in the most recent quarter, while net income jumped 42.1% year on year thanks to recent investment and divestment activity.
Forthcoming events
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Macquarie Asset Management has finalised an agreement with Enel to acquire a 40% equity stake in Open Fiber for €2.12 billion ($2.5 billion).
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Italy appears to be moving away from the idea of a full-blown merger of its fibre infrastructure, led in part by former Vodafone chief Vittorio Colao, who wants to retain competition.
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The European Union is to support an Italian plan to build ultra-fast networks to the tune of €7 billion, according to unconfirmed reports.
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Swisscom’s Fastweb and investment company KKR have both taken their stakes in FiberCop, the next stage in the long-running project to build a national Italian fibre company.
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Carlo Filangieri, the head of wholesale markets at TIM, is to be the CEO of Italy’s last-mile fibre business, FiberCop.
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TIM's shares are trading 8% higher today following the release of the telco's Q4 and FY2020 financial results, themselves bolstered by a two-year transformation project.
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Telcos might give stable returns on long-term infrastructure, but stock markets don’t seem to like the industry, writes Alan Burkitt-Gray. That’s why private equity investors and pension funds are stepping in
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This episode features deputy editor Melanie Mingas, editor-at-large Alan Burkitt-Gray and senior reporters Natalie Bannerman and Abigail Opiah.
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American global investment company KKR is reportedly in talks with Abu Dhabi’s largest sovereign fund to sell a share of its stake in TIM’s new FiberCop.
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Italy is set to take the next step to creating a unified wholesale fibre network company by the beginning of December.
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Australian bank Macquarie has made a binding €2.65 billion offer for Enel’s 50% stake in Open Fiber, the Italian wholesale fibre company.
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Italian operators have taken the first – and biggest – step to creating a single network delivering fibre to the home (FTTH), to be followed by a later merger to create a national wholesale-only fibre network.