To make investments in ultra-broadband, the Antitrust proposes an organization model similar to that of the electricity market, in which Terna plays the central role of transmission without offering services to the public. In essence, "the model of a pure wholesale network operator - writes the Authority in its opinion to the Government -, not vertically integrated in the provision of services to end customers who transfer wholesale access services to telecommunications operators in a neutral way ”.
Furthermore, according to the Antitrust, "the limits established in the request for an opinion also appear compatible with the hypothesis of a company assignee of the grants in which a plurality of operators active in the supply of services to end users participate, in non-controlling positions ”.
The vertical separation of the operators, underlines the Authority again, "who benefit from public funding for the purpose of building new generation networks, together with the further limit of precluding control of the company that contributes to the funding, constitute suitable measures to reduce the risk that public resources are used to finance forms of cross-subsidy to services offered in competition in downstream markets and therefore to alter competitive conditions".
