Open Fiber races to bring its fiber optic network to schools. The goal, particularly important at a time when the pandemic has accentuated distance learning but also in a logic of innovation in teaching, has already been achieved in over 10.500 schools throughout the country.
The list of schools already connected in Open Fiber FTTH fiber is available here.
The company, in underlining its commitment to connecting schools "in order to guarantee the best performance for today's and future teaching", recalls that to facilitate the activation of the ultra-broadband connection in schools, “Infratel has launched the “School Plan” tender. The Plan provides that educational institutions can request a symmetrical fiber connection of up to 1 Gigabit per second and that the service is free for institutions for a period of 5 years".
Big cities or small municipalities, fiber advances and Open Fiber underlines the attention paid to schools from the very beginning of its business and from the development of the industrial plan.
"Anticipating the Italy 1 Giga Plan on which the government is working - observes the marketing and commercial director of Open Fiber, Simone Bonannini – we have already wired over 10.500 schools throughout the country, with the aim of guaranteeing as many as possible the right to study in the school of the future which will be increasingly digital. We are certain that, thanks to public resources and with the contribution of our network, more and more schools will be able to guarantee an effective use of technological tools in favor of the training of our students".
Furthermore, the company led by Elisabetta Ripa has already completed the cabling plan for the city of Udine: they are about 46 thousand the homes and offices of the city connected to the network FTTH (Fiber To The Home, fiber up to the house) who can already benefit from faster web browsing up to 1 Gigabit per second. With a private investment of over 12 million euro, Open Fiber has built a new ultra-broadband infrastructure of approximately 370 kilometers in the area, and, in agreement with the municipal administration, has extended the initial coverage project which envisaged the connection of approximately 40 thousand real estate units.
In the first four months of 2021, orders on the ultra-fast network installed by Open Fiber in Udine, through the partner operators who provide the services, are in fact up by 50% compared to the same period of 2020, which had already ended with a boom of activation requests.
