Wind Tre and Open Fiber have extended their alliance for the diffusion of FTTH (Fiber To The Home) ultra-broadband services, which brings fiber optic connectivity directly from the telephone exchange to homes and businesses. The goal is to reach more than 7 thousand Municipalities, in addition to the 271 main Italian cities where the agreement between the two operators is already active.
In particular, the new locations included in the partnership concern clusters C and D, the so-called white areas, characterized by a strong digital divide and poor or absent broadband coverage. Thanks to the agreement, the Municipalities involved will be reached by connectivity with a browsing speed of up to one Gigabit per second (Gbps).
For Gianluca Corti, chief commercial officer of Wind Tre, “the new agreement signed with Open Fiber represents a very important step for overcoming the digital divide in small towns and less populated areas of the country. Indeed, thanks to the modern ultra-broadband network, Wind Tre will be able to enable services of great value for families and businesses, in order to concretely contribute to the development of territories never reached by the digital ecosystem until now".
According to Open Fiber's marketing and commercial director, Simone Bonannini, "the expansion of the strategic agreement with Wind Tre confirms the validity of Open Fiber's wholesale-only model which allows everyone to access a modern, fast network on equal terms and efficient on which advanced services can be marketed even in the most difficult to reach and less densely populated areas of the country. There are over 70 Municipalities in this cluster in which Open Fiber has made the infrastructure available for the activation of services entirely in fiber, thanks to the initial promotional phase of experimentation”.
