Tim and Open Fiber in AccessCo Terna model. Patuanelli’s theses
Theses, wishes and puffs of the Minister of Economic Development, Patuanelli, on Tim, Open Fiber and the single network. And in the majority there are those who also invoke the confluence of Rai Way, Ei Towers and Telecom Italia Sparkle in the single company of the network.
In the company of the network centered on Cassa Depositi e Prestiti, in addition to those of Tim, Open Fiber and Flash Fiber, it is appropriate that first then there are also Rai Way, Ei Towers and Telecom Italia Sparkle, controlled by the Tim group.
This is the objective of the government according to what emerges from the statements of various members of the government and the majority that supports the executive. Here are all the details.
“A network company that is not vertically integrated” on the “Terna model”. So Stefano Patuanelli, Minister of Economic Development, imagines the society of the single network. A company in which not only the broadband infrastructure will be able to converge, but which could also accommodate 5G technology.
In Terna, the single largest shareholder is Cdp Reti with 29.85% .
THE HAPPENS OF MISE
“The government project, which in our opinion is a project of the country, is to create a network company, with the operators that confer, which is not vertically integrated, which has a relative majority on the Terna model”, explained Patuanelli. “This is the project, we need to understand if those who have those assets today believe that this is a viable project or not. But it is not that we can impose it, we are trying to achieve it step by step ”, added the minister.
IN COMPLIANCE WITH EU RULES
Among the peculiar characteristics of the company, there is the fact that it will have to respect "European rules".
“We ask that both the European and the Italian regulators are rigid in identifying the limits and perimeter in which the network company will have to move”, he added.
NOT ONLY ULTRA BROADBAND
In reality, there is much more to government projects. The company “born exclusively with fiber may be the starting point, but it doesn't have to be the end point”, says Patuanelli.
"I see a network company that also includes 5G and other technologies within a regulated market that allows equal access to operators and provides for the transfer of assets of other operators".
DELAYS ON THE NETWORK
Ambitions aside, Patuanelli is aware that now is the time to accelerate on the infrastructure.
“Yesterday Infratel made a call, a round table with the operators of the sector to verify the current market conditions, the picture that emerged is one of acceleration of the fiber network, but still lagging behind the objectives. Open Fiber has announced that the plan will be completed by 2023 "but" the data from Infratel tell us that 2023 will hardly be reached ".
THE WAY OF RECOVERY FUND
In this sense, the Recovery Fund could prove to be useful for restarting: "It is necessary to accelerate and the Recovery equipment is a strong channel to be used incisively to implement the network construction process".
OPEN FIBER: DELAYS NOT ATTRIBUTABLE TO US
The words on the delays did not leave Open Fiber indifferent, which immediately stated in a note: "To date, despite the known difficulties faced by the designer in charge, Open Fiber has delivered 3,045 executive projects, which guarantee operations up to and including 2021. The design therefore does not constitute an obstacle or impediment to the realization of the Bul project by
2023 ".
"Work continues with Infratel for acceleration based on the plan presented to Cobul, which enjoys full financial coverage and provides for the completion of the Bul Plan in 16 Regions in 2022 and in the remaining 4 Regions (for a total of 8% of the overall UI) in 2023. Goals that, thanks to all the measures implemented, we confirm that we can achieve. To date, in the areas affected by the Infratel tenders, Open Fiber has started work in approximately 2,500 municipalities, completed 843 municipalities and made approximately 950,000 IU in 828 municipalities available to operators for marketing ”, adds the note.
CIOFFI WISHES THE INVOLVEMENT OF RAI WAY AND EI TOWERS
Returning, however, to the wishes of the Government, Andrea Cioffi also expressed himself in terms of networking, hoping for the involvement of Rau Way and Ei Towers. "In the construction of a single telecommunications network, the involvement in the management company of subjects who can confer important assets such as towers, repeaters and pylons, fundamental infrastructures for the convergence that we have always hoped for in view of a digital Italy, where distances and differences in development in the country can finally be shortened. For this reason we believe not only possible, but also desirable the involvement in the management company of the single network of Rai Way (controlled by Rai and therefore to rise by Mef) and Ei Towers (controlled by F2i, in turn owned by the CDP) " , says Andrea Cioffi (M5S), M5S transport national facilitator and member of the Public Works and Communications Commission of the Senate.
Rai Way and Ei Towers “own the aforementioned infrastructures, which are indispensable for the diffusion of 5G. All this would contribute to strengthening the public hold on the society of the single network, which for us must be under public control to guarantee development and investments in the country. The same public control is also fundamental to protect a decisive asset of Tim, namely that Sparkle which manages hundreds of thousands of kilometers of submarine cables through which an immense amount of data, even sensitive, passes ”, added Cioffi.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/primo-piano/tim-e-open-fiber-in-societa-rete-unica-con-modello-terna-le-tesi-di-patuanelli/ on Thu, 10 Sep 2020 13:30:07 +0000.