How Tim moves between Iliad and Eutelsat
Iliad talks with Fibercop to launch the fixed network offer. Meanwhile, Tim has signed a strategic agreement with Eutelsat
Iliad warms up to make its entry into the fixed telephony market. The French operator who landed on the Italian mobile market three years ago is evaluating, in addition to the partnership with Open Fiber, also a possible agreement with Tim's Fibercop.
If the two companies were to find an agreement, Iliad would be the other big Tlc, together with Tiscali and Fastweb, to rely on Fibercop's FTTH network, which should completely cover the black areas by 2025.
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INTERVIEWS IN PROGRESS
According to the rumors revealed by the Sole 24 Ore , discussions are underway between Iliad and Fibercop, the company controlled by Tim, led by Carlo Filangieri and chaired by Massimo Sarmi.
Fibercop's fiber should complement that of Open Fiber , with which Iliad has already signed an agreement and which at the moment does not guarantee widespread coverage at national level.
WHAT DOES ILIAD WANT FROM TIM?
The French company, which is headed by Xavier Niel, has no intention of entering the shareholding structure of the newborn company, as done for example by Fastweb, but could consider signing "structural purchase agreements" for the secondary access network , the one that goes from the locker in the street to the houses, in 1,610 Italian municipalities.
THE POSSIBLE ILIAD-FIBERCOP AGREEMENTS
In particular, the agreement could be based, as in the case of Tiscali, on the mechanism of guaranteed minimums for a period of 10 years, or on purchases in Iru, the rights of use of the network used, at 20 years.
Iliad, writes the Sun , would be more oriented "to the mechanism of IRU, even if it requires in-depth studies and adjustments".
FIBERCOP WAITING FOR AGCOM
Waiting for the talks to bear any fruit, Fibercop expects, by the summer, the go-ahead from Agcom to start the co-investment with other operators, as per the European Communications Code.
TIM'S PLANS
The company led by Filangieri aims to complete coverage of all black areas and about half of the gray, competitive and semi-competitive areas, by 2025.
TIM AND THE SATELLITE STRATEGY
To achieve the goal, the company led by Luigi Gubitosi will get help from satellites. The company has signed a strategic agreement with Eutelsat Communications for the acquisition of the entire transmission capacity for Italy on the two new high-performance satellites, KONNECT for the distribution of ultra-broadband satellite and KONNECT VHTS (to be activated) which will allow connections up to 200 Mbps.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/innovazione/come-si-muove-tim-fra-iliad-ed-eutelsat/ on Fri, 04 Jun 2021 13:33:29 +0000.