TIM closes the digital divide in Friuli Venezia Giulia. After Puglia, the North-East Region is now the second Italian Region to reach this important milestone. The ultra-broadband coverage plan was completed through the FTTx network (i.e. with FTTC technologies up to 200 Mbps and FTTH up to 1 Gigabit/s), reaching over 99% of households using the fixed network managed by TIM, to which are added the FWA and satellite ultrabroadband connections.
Despite the health emergency from Covid-19, the commitment of the company led by Luigi Gubitosi continues to close the digital divide in Italy and to give a strong boost to the optical fiber development plan. In the case of Friuli Venezia Giulia, they have been realised infrastructural interventions in over 200 municipalities to build new networks or expand existing ones, ensuring citizens and businesses ultra-fast connections, necessary in this delicate moment.
In the last year, the Italian company has accelerated the fiber coverage plan in more than 3.800 Italian municipalities, mainly in the white areas of the country. To date, TIM's fiber network is available to over 92% of Italian households using the fixed network.
Furthermore, thanks to the creation of FiberCop – an infrastructure company controlled by the TIM Group – an important plan was launched for the construction of the secondary optical fiber network which has the national objective of covering by 2025, 76% of the country's black and gray areas with Fiber To The Home (FTTH) technology.
FiberCop will thus make it possible to develop FTTH solutions according to the co-investment model envisaged by the new European Code of Electronic Communications. In particular, in Friuli Venezia Giulia the company FiberCop expects to bring super-fast Fiber up to 1 Gigabit/s in 24 Municipalities of the region.
