A 43 million euro partnership to create an "intelligent city", made up of technology and new infrastructures, in the Milan area which in four years will host the Universal Exposition. This is the agreement reached between the Expo company and Telecom Italia, which today announced investments for the development of fixed fiber optic and wi-fi networks, cloud computing and ultra-band mobile networks, including fourth generation ones. Structures that will remain once the Expo is over.
The goal “was to launch partnerships with the world of companies, in which we ask to participate with infrastructure and income statement for around 400 million euros – commented Giuseppe Sala, managing director of the Expo -. In the past there could have been doubts, today we have secured a great partner and about 10% of that budget".
For Marco Patuano, CEO of Telecom, "today there are all the technological conditions to improve the quality of life and the Digital Smart City that we will create represents a model of the city of the future, near and far, capable of ensuring a high standard of digital services to support the Expo and its visitors”.
According to Roberto Formigoni, president of the Lombardy Region and general commissioner of the event, the agreement with Telecome "overturns the conception of Expo as perpetually stunted, in need of subsidies and vitamins".
