EOLO and TIM have signed an MoU to launch a strategic partnership project in Italy’s ‘white areas’ in which EOLO - Italian benefit leader in the provision of ultrabroadband connectivity through FWA technology - will be able to provide wholesale internet access services to TIM.
The agreement leverages on EOLO’s ultrabroadband coverage, which currently already reaches over 6,500 Italian municipalities and 79% of homes in rural or low-density areas.
The agreement also provides for the launch of a trial by the end of October, aiming to carry out the appropriate analyses and field tests and define the technical and operating procedures for the provision of EOLO wholesale services on TIM’s network.
The partnership with TIM represents an important step in EOLO’s development plan, in which the wholesale market will play an increasingly central and strategic role in providing ultrabroadband services for rural and suburban areas of Italy.
Luigi Gubitosi, TIM’s CEO
The understanding, in addition to confirming our commitment and desire to become the driving force in the country’s digitisation process, will also enable us to start testing, as a consortium, new ways of accessing FWA services, improving our capacity to contribute to the objectives of the ‘Italia a 1 Giga’ plan which is part of the government’s strategy in the deployment of Ultrabroadband.
Luca Spada, President and founder of EOLO
We are delighted to extend our collaboration with TIM, which has been our strategic partner for years in the provision of optical fibre to EOLO’s backbone network. It’s for these reasons that we have decided to extend our wholesale offer to consumer customers (B2C), leveraging on our far-reaching network and on the development of both product and process innovation throughout the production chain.
