we receive e we publish the press release issued by the Open Fiber Group.
Campobasso, 6 May 2024 – This morning at the Ex Gil headquarters, headquarters of the Tourism Department, in the presence of Andrew DiLucente, vice-president of the Molise Region, of the Councilor for the digital transition Salvatore Micone, of the CEO of Open Fiber Joseph Gola and the BUL Infratel Italia Plan ManagerLuigi Cudia, the closure of the BUL Plan in Molise was announced. The Molise Region is the first in Italy to cross the finishing line of completing the plan promoted by Mimit, which has seen Open Fiber engaged in the design, construction and management of a latest generation FTTH fiber optic network, aimed at bridging the digital divide in small villages. The works, carried out by Open Fiber after having won the public tender announced by Infratel, saw the construction, with modern techniques and with low environmental impact, of a 1.700 kilometer infrastructure entirely in optical fibre. With a connection that can reach a speed of 10 Gigabits per second, there will be many benefits for citizens, businesses and public administration: telemedicine, smart working, environmental monitoring, management of public lighting and many others. Furthermore, Open Fiber's optical fiber guarantees energy savings (it consumes over 60% less energy than a copper network) and consequent reduction in CO2 emissions.
The FTTH network (Fiber to the home, fiber to the home) - the only one capable of guaranteeing Gigabit speed, as well as very low latency and high performance - has reached 130 municipalities in the Region (49 in the province of Isernia and 81 in Campobasso) with the service already available for citizens. In total, 133 thousand homes and 688 offices of the Central and Local Public Administration (municipal offices, police stations, schools, libraries, hospitals and clinics) were connected.
"Molise is the first and only Italian region to have completed the fiber infrastructure interventions in the municipalities envisaged by the Plan - explained theCouncilor for digital transition Salvatore Micone – A very great result that makes us proud and which materializes in a promising challenge that offers the concrete opportunity for social growth and economic development of the entire regional territory and of the local communities, especially of the internal, rural and mountain areas which are high risk of marginality and territorial isolation. An important and long-awaited step that goes towards the correct valorisation of the territories".
“We are particularly pleased to be able to announce the completion of the Bul plan in Molise, the first Italian region to reach this milestone – stressed Luigi Cudia, BUL Infratel Italia Plan Manager -. This is a fundamental pillar of the overall public intervention that Infratel Italia is implementing and which includes, in addition to the BUL plan, the 1G Italy plan, the Connected School plan and the Connected Healthcare plan. All these public interventions in areas of market failure, which complement private investments in the most profitable areas, will bring Molise and Italy as a whole on a par with the most digitalized European countries, thus implementing a complete digital democracy.
In addition to the small villages and more isolated municipalities covered by the BUL plan, Open Fiber is present with a proprietary FTTH network in Campobasso, Isernia and Termoli, with a private investment of 8,3 million euros and a total of 47 thousand connected homes.
Open Fiber aims to guarantee coverage of the major Italian cities and the connection of rural and industrial areas, with an ultra-fast and reliable fiber optic network, capable of providing increasingly advanced services and functions for citizens, businesses and the Public Administration. To date, the company has put over 13.5 million real estate units on sale in FTTH and is the main FTTH operator in Italy, among the leaders in Europe, and the first among operators wholesale only of the continent.
