Wind Tre
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Italy's Wind Tre has signed memorandum of understanding with the municipalities of the Milan metropolitan area: Arese, Baranzate, Bollate and Rho, on smart city development. -
Carlo Melis, chief network officer of CK Hutchison’s Three UK, is heading to the group’s Italian operation, Wind Tre, and being replaced by Iain Milligan, former director of service operations and assurance.
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Ericsson has been selected by Italian telco Windtre to deploy container-based dual-mode 5G core for standalone networks on cloud infrastructure.
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TIM’s long-haul network in Italy has carried data at 600Gbps per wavelength over a 1,000km-long fibre.
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Nokia has been selected by Wind Tre in Italy to deploy a new, high performance optical backbone.
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A Swiss private equity investor is to acquire a 75% stake in Eolo, the Italian fixed wireless company that last week agreed a wholesale deal with TIM.
Forthcoming events
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Interconnect and roaming specialist Syniverse has appointed Andrew Davies, a former Sprint, Vodafone and Verizon executive, as CEO.
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Amsterdam-based Veon has succeeded in taking almost 100% control of the Egyptian company that controls operators in Algeria, Bangladesh and Pakistan.
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CK Hutchison, which owns the Three mobile networks in Europe and a business in Hong Kong, is to set up a company to run the group’s 28,500 towers.
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Swisscom’s Italian fibre company Fastweb is to become the fifth mobile operator in Italy, following government approval.
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Italian mobile operator Wind Tre is to spend €6 billion over the next five years on upgrading its 4.5G network to 5G, said CEO Jeffrey Hedberg on Friday.
