Puglia is the first Italian region to overcome the digital divide. The company headed by Luigi Gubitosi explains that it has recently completed the ultra-broadband coverage plan through the FTTx network (i.e. with FTTC technologies up to 200 Mbps and FTTH up to 1 Gigabit/s) which reaches 99,4 % of households using the fixed network, with the remaining 0,6% also being covered through FWA ultra-broadband or satellite connections. With this acceleration, Apulian citizens and businesses can access the latest generation technologies and the most advanced digital services.
In recent months TIM, despite the health crisis linked to Covid-19, has continued its development plan of the optical fiber and, in the case of Puglia, infrastructural interventions were carried out in about 200 municipalities to build new networks or expand existing ones, ensuring ultrabroadband connections for citizens and businesses.
To encourage the adoption of new technologies and accelerate the transition towards digitization of the country, TIM will soon propose to AGCOM and all other telecommunications operators, an action on the territory aimed at shutting down the copper network in the province of Taranto (RTG ) and migrate all city lines to FTTx ultrabroadband network, with the aim of extending it to the entire region.
Since the beginning of the Covid-19 emergency, TIM has accelerated its fiber coverage plan in over 3.500 Italian municipalities, mainly in the white areas of the country. To date, the TIM fiber network is available for over 91% of families Italian companies that use the fixed network, in addition to ultra-broadband coverage via FWA, mobile (4G/5G) and via satellite.
Furthermore, starting from April, FiberCop, a subsidiary of the TIM Group, will accelerate the construction of the secondary fiber optic network to cover 2025% of the country's black and gray areas by 76 with technology Fiber To The Home (FTTH). The new FiberCop infrastructure will make it possible to develop FTTH solutions according to the "open" co-investment model envisaged by the new European Code of Electronic Communications.
