Italy is ready for its’ digital revolution and has the ambition to exceed the objectives of the Digital Agenda for Europe with a National Plan which uses public resources for 6 billion euro and aims to provide the country with a network infrastructure that will bring the fiber as close as possible to the houses. They will then “operators to choose the most efficient technology” to achieve assured the minister of development Federica Guidi
“For the first time Italy was equipped with a plan that brings together different ministries, different sources of finance, capital of Regions, the private: a mix and an attempt to make unity a range of skills and resources in a strategic framework that will allow this country to finally make its digital revolution, and achieve goals the European agenda, “said Undersecretary Graziano Delrio at the end of the CDM, which approved the Strategy for the Italian ultra-wideband and digital growth from 2014 to 2020.
On the sidelines there will be then the implementation the so-called decree ‘unlocks Italià arrived at the signature of the Minister Federica Guidi and the decree on broadband which has been discussed in recent days, but that is not on the agenda. For the latter, the Government has taken time and today have been approved two documents’ political, one on the ultra-wideband and one on the goals of digital growth. Is submitted, a macro-objective, identifies areas of intervention, financial instruments and estimate the resources required.
A goal may be deemed accessible to reach the 45-55% of the population with the FTTB / FTTH and up to 85% with FTTC. The ambition is to go beyond the objectives of the Digital Agenda for Europe “bringing 100 megs to 85% of the population by 2020,” the minister said Guidi, with an Italy divided into four areas of intervention, from metropolitan cities to rural areas. A series of ad hoc measures will be included in a specific measure, as the ” universal digital service, a guarantee fund, a voucher to accompany the migration to fiber optics and the convergence of the price for fiber optic connections made with subsidies state, the price of copper connections “it said in a statement.
What are the resources to be deployed? “Why projects ultra-wideband, as apparently come out of the CDM, will be realized serve resources amounting to 12-15 billion euro,” says Francesco Boccia, chairman of the House Budget Committee, speaking on SkyTg 24. “I said the secretary during the meetings issues to the Nazarene – he explains – the plan Juncker will arrive in the Chamber in the coming weeks, we use part of the resources at our disposal to ensure that Italy will become a really fast and modern country. ” In total the basin of public resources that potentially could draw so would exceed 13 billion.
From the Structural Funds for 2012-20 can be drawn 2.2 billion euro, the Funds for the development and cohesion (FSC) ex Funds for underdeveloped areas (FAS) you can get up to 4 billion euro although in theory as from 2017. Finally, according to rumors, Italy would ‘booked funds for broadband 7 billion euro under the plan Junker. Diners stone are private. “The only public resources will not be enough,” emphasizes the CDM urging a public private partnership. Vodafone has already raised the idea of a new company with the participation of the state and open to all operators.
“We want to participate through capital increases with a significant share in the vehicle that will be identified in a Public Private, in which no operator will have the majority, and with the presence of a third party, such as Cassa in leadership and warranty, “says the CEO of Vodafone Italy Aldo Bisio.
Wednesday, March 4, 2015, 01:06 – Last Updated: 01:07
© ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
No comments:
Post a Comment