Open Fiber, the company that deals with the construction of the FTTH fiber infrastructure controlled by Cassa depositi e prestiti (Cdp), has construction sites opened for the realization of its ultra-fast fiber a Bitritto, a municipality in the Bari metropolitan area.
The works in the Apulian town are planned by "Italy Plan at 1 Giga", as part of the Italian Strategy for Ultra-Broadband (BUL) financed with the funds of PNRR.
FTTH infrastructure that will allow surfing at 10 Gbps
The call provides for the connection of nearly a thousand civics distributed throughout the territory which correspond to over 2 real estate units where citizens, businesses, schools and public offices will be able to take advantage of an ultra-fast network. Thus, some areas not reached by at least one network capable of providing download connection speeds equal to or greater than 300 Mbit/s will be covered.
THEFTTH infrastructure (Fiber To The Home) will make it possible to improve the performance that facilitates the use of numerous services: from telemedicine to smart working, up to distance learning and daily use of the network for leisure and the use of content online in HD.
Cover 94% of Italian municipalities
Open Fiber was awarded overall 8 lots in the tender, for a total of 3.881 municipalities in 9 regions: Campania, Emilia-Romagna, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Lazio, Lombardy, Puglia, Sicily, Tuscany and Veneto. Expected high-speed coverage of 3,9 million civilians.
The company already has connected over 14,5 million real estate units in Italy to its new ultra-broadband network e aims to cover approximately 25 million real estate units, equal to 94% of Italian municipalities.
The overall plan, between private and public investment, goes further 15 billion euros.
To date, ultra-fast connectivity on the network created by Open Fiber is available in 225 cities and over 4200 small municipalities.
