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Fastweb, TIM, Intred awarded Italy school fibre contracts

Wednesday 24 February 2021 | 15:10 CET | News
State-owned infrastructure agency Infratel Italia said it has approved the award of the first seven lots of the tender to bring high-speed fibre services at download speeds of up to 1Gbps to thousands of schools all over Italy. The award comes just a few weeks after the EC said the initiative met EU state aid rules in that the schools that will benefit are located in areas with insufficient connectivity, in line with the bloc's broadband connectivity objectives.

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