Navigate with the optical fiber which arrives directly in homes, schools, companies and public offices. A service, as happens in large cities, which can now be accessed, among others, by 12 locations in western Sicily. Open Fiber is in fact building in the so-called "white areas" object of the three Infratel tenders, with the economic contribution of the Regions involved, an infrastructure that aims to reduce the digital gap providing ultra-broadband connectivity services in over 8,5 million homes throughout Italy.
Open Fiber optic fiber: covered 201 municipalities and 135 public administration offices
In detail, the new network extends for a total of approximately 250 kilometers which currently sees over 36 real estate units connected through an infrastructure that will remain publicly owned and will be managed under concession by Open Fiber for 20 years. The company's plan for white areas involves over 7 municipalities throughout Italy.
Furthermore, there are 135 public offices reached by the new ultra-broadband network, starting with schools of all levels and health facilities. Without forgetting central and branch municipal offices, libraries, museums, carabinieri barracks and firefighters. But also venues of high historical-cultural value: the Civic Tower of Acquaviva Platani, the former convents of Geraci Siculo, Palazzo Sacco in Santa Margherita di Belice.
Specifically, the 12 localities involved are Acquaviva Platani, Borgetto, Caltabellotta, Chiusa Sclafani, Cianciana, Geraci Siculo, Montelepre, Santa Margherita di Belice, Santo Stefano Quisquina, Serradifalco, Trappeto and Valledolmo.
"About 300 real estate units already wired throughout the island, 201 municipalities covered by the new FTTH (Fiber-to-the-home) fiber optic network, an induced that exceeds 600 resources in the field including specialized technicians and other professional figures - he underlined Andrea Falessi, External Relations Director of Open Fiber -. The numbers of the BUL Plan in Sicily, an intervention closing in 2022, show that digital transformation is a more than achievable goal when institutions, businesses and citizens march in the same direction. Being able to surf the internet at maximum speed in the center of Palermo or Catania as well as in the mountain villages or in the smaller islands is now a consolidated reality – concluded Falessi – a further attraction and development factor of a unique land”.
Gaetano Armao, Regional Councilor for the Economy, reiterated that the investments made by the island in the last three years have been "around 300 million in digital, of which over 180 million euros for ultra-broadband, making it the most digitally infrastructured Region in the Mediterranean , and achieving full use of European resources and applying for a strengthening of investments in the 2021-2027 programming". In all of this, the digitized municipalities “are more than double that of other central-northern regions. The digital transition, for the benefit of Sicilian businesses and citizens, is now a reality", concluded Armao.
