Inwit (Infrastrutture Wireless Italiane) will make its towers available to Open Fiber to build a part of the OF network that will use Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) technology. This is what is foreseen in a framework agreement signed by the two companies and according to which Open Fiber it will make use of some of the 11 towers that make up the infrastructure assets of Inwit in the areas where it was the winner of the Infratel tenders for the construction of a passive ultra-broadband infrastructure. The tenders envisage the achievement of 9,3 million real estate units in 16 Italian regions plus the autonomous province of Trento. For some of these, FWA technology will be used, all the others will be reached by optical fiber up to the house.
With its infrastructure of towers widely distributed throughout the country, Inwit will therefore contribute to the rapid implementation of the Fixed Wireless Access infrastructure by Open Fiber. The agreement, it is not exclusive to both parties and Open Fiber will define the number of sites to request from Inwit based on its design needs for the new network. According to some projections, Of will lease from Telecom Italia around 20% of the 5 towers it needs. By observers, this first agreement on ultra-broadband was assessed as a first significant signal towards a thaw among the protagonists (Tim, Enel and Cdp) of what could become in the future - with the auspices of the government - the new single fiber optic network .
