Vodafone enters the field for the acquisition of Metroweb, the optical fiber telecommunications company, controlled by F2i (Cdp) which intends to sell its stake. After Telecom Italia which recently confirmed its interest in Metroweb, the novelty coming from Vodafone, which has made broadband and landline telephony its new target in Italy, opens up new scenarios.
The first is the competition that opens between Telecom and Vodafone for the conquest of Metroweb in the context of strengthening the fixed network. But the second, no less relevant, is that, through an active role of the Cassa depositi e prestiti, it is perhaps possible to re-launch the hypothesis of a national network company among the Italian telephone operators without hegemonies and within the framework of a real modernization and development of the country's TLCs compatible with the guidelines of the Antitrust. The next steps will tell if new scenarios can finally open up and who will be the subjects who will promote a new era of our telecommunications and greater market opening.
