Swisscom is a major telecommunications provider in Switzerland. Its headquarters are located in Worblaufen near Bern. The Swiss government owns 51% of Swisscom. According to its own published data, Swisscom holds a market share of 56% for mobile, 50% for broadband and 37% for TV telecommunication in Switzerland. Its Italian subsidiary, Fastweb, is attributed 16% of private clients and 29% of the corporate clients share of Italian broadband and is also active in the mobile market.
TIM S.p.A. is an Italian telecommunications company with headquarters in Rome, Milan, and Naples, which provides fixed, public and mobile telephony, and DSL data services.
Fastweb is an Italian telecommunications company that provides fixed and mobile telephony, broadband Internet and IPTV services. It is also one of the prominent companies in Italy providing FTTH connections, and is a subsidiary of Fastweb + Vodafone and part of the Swiss telecommunications group Swisscom.
Fiber to the x or fiber in the loop is a generic term for any broadband network architecture using optical fiber to provide all or part of the local loop used for last mile telecommunications. As fiber optic cables are able to carry much more data than copper cables, especially over long distances, copper telephone networks built in the 20th century are being replaced by fiber.
Vodafone Italy is an Italian telecommunications company owned by Swisscom though Fastweb + Vodafone. The company's headquarters are in Ivrea (TO) and Milan.
Empresa Nacional de Telecomunicaciones S.A. is the largest Chilean telecommunications company. The company is known for the 127 meters (417 ft) high Torre Entel that rises above central Santiago and constitutes one of the city's landmarks.
The Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Italy is .it and is sponsored by Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche. The .eu domain is also used, as it is shared with other European Union member states.
Broadband Internet in Israel has been available since the late 1990s in theory, but it only became practically accessible to most customers in 2001. By 2008, Israel had become one of the few countries with developed broadband capabilities across two types of infrastructure—cable and DSL—reaching over 95% of the population. Actual broadband market penetration stands at 77%, ranked 7th in the world. In 2010, Israel was ranked 26th in The Economist's Digital Economy Rankings. In 2022, Israel was ranked first for digital quality of life by Surfshark.
Silvio Scaglia is a Swiss-born media and technological entrepreneur. Scaglia is the founder of Fastweb, an Italian telecommunications company. Scaglia is the co-owner of Freedom Holding, a holding company that controls the Elite World Group. In 2020, he founded SHS management, an AI-powered asset management company.
10G-PON is a 2010 computer networking standard for data links, capable of delivering shared Internet access rates up to 10 Gbit/s over dark fiber. This is the ITU-T's next-generation standard following on from GPON or gigabit-capable PON. Optical fibre is shared by many subscribers in a network known as FTTx in a way that centralises most of the telecommunications equipment, often displacing copper phone lines that connect premises to the phone exchange. Passive optical network (PON) architecture has become a cost-effective way to meet performance demands in access networks, and sometimes also in large optical local networks for fibre-to-the-desk.
Ho Mobile, variously stylized as ho., ho.Mobile, or ho-mobile, is an Italian sub-brand of Fastweb + Vodafone operating as a Mobile Virtual Network Operator.
Telecom Italia Sparkle S.p.A. is an Italian telecommunications company owned by Telecom Italia S.p.A. of which it manages the Tier 1 network.
TIMvision is an Italian Internet video on demand service by Telecom Italia.
Open Fiber S.p.A. is an Italian wholesale only telecommunications company, owned 60% by CDP Equity S.p.A. and 40% by Macquarie Asset Management.
Blu S.p.A. was an Italian telecommunications company operating in the mobile telephony sector.
Iliad Italia S.p.A. is an Italian telecommunications company, wholly-owned subsidiary of the French group Iliad SA
Elisabetta Ripa is an Italian businesswoman, CEO of Enel X Way since April 2022 and Advisory board of IAB Italia, a consultative body established to promote digital culture. As a successful Manager, Forbes included her among the 100 most successful Italian women in 2019.
Virgin Fibra S.r.l. is an Italian telecommunications company owned by Virgin Group Ltd., which offers fiber optic telephony services in FTTH technology.
Nòverca S.r.l. is an Italian telecommunications company that operates in the mobile telephony sector as a Mobile Virtual Network Operator on the TIM network.
