Open Fiber awarded third Italian public broadband tender

News Broadband Italy 19 DEC 2018
Open Fiber awarded third Italian public broadband tender
The Open Fiber wholesale-only venture of Italian utility Enel and state lender CDP has been officially awarded the third public tender to build and operate an Italian national high-speed broadband network in 882 digital divide localities. The award was confirmed in a short statement by state-owned infrastructure firm Infratel, which launched the EUR 103 million tender to roll out high-speed broadband in non-economically viable parts of Calabria, Puglia and Sardinia last April. Open Fiber will be required to install services providing download speeds of 100Mbps and upload speeds of 50Mbps to 296,000 premises and 378,000 people in the selected localities.

The decision means Open Fiber has been awarded all three national broadband auctions after it secured the initial EUR 1.4 billion contract to roll out fibre cable in underserved parts of Abruzzo, Molise, Emilia Romagna, Lombardy, Tuscany and Veneto followed by a EUR 1.2 billion concession to build and operate a fibre network in the regions of Piedmont, Aosta Valley, Liguria, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Umbria, Marche, Lazio, Campania, Basilicata, Sicily and the Autonomous Province of Trento. Open Fiber said the first two tenders cover well over 9 million homes in 6,753 localities.


 

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Fixed

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Infratel,  Open Fiber

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Italy

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Production planning & operations, Government telecommunications licensing, Fibre, Internet Access, Wholesale, Contract & orders

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