Open Fiber

Open Fiber S.p.A.[2] (formerly Enel Open Fiber S.p.A.) is an Italian telecommunications company.[3]

Open Fiber
Native name
Open Fiber S.p.A.
FormerlyEnel Open Fiber S.p.A.
TypeSocietà per azioni
IndustryTelecommunications
FoundedDecember 2015 (2015-12)
FounderEnel
Headquarters
Milan
,
Italy
Area served
Italy
Key people
ProductsAccess network, core network, fiber-optic communication, telecommunications network
Revenue €186 milion[1] (2019)
€−116.9 milion[1] (2019)
OwnersEnel (50%)
CDP Equity (50%)
ParentEnel
Cassa Depositi e Prestiti
Websitewww.openfiber.it

Open Fiber was established in December 2015, as a wholly owned subsidiary of Italian energy company Enel, in order to build an independent fibre-based access network.

In July 2016 the company acquired Metroweb Italia from F2i SGR and Cassa Depositi e Prestiti, a private equity fund and a sovereign wealth fund respectively. However, CDP also acquired 50% stake in Open Fiber.[4]

The company operates in the so-called "market success" clusters A and B as resolved by the Council of Ministers of the Italian Republic on 4 March 2015, ie 282 municipalities in large urban areas by 2022. The areas chosen for the project are a subset of the 642 municipalities categorized as clusters A and B by the Government. Open Fiber, estimating a cost corresponding to less than half of that proposed by the competition, won all fourteen lots envisaged in the three calls for the "ultra-broadband plan" launched by Infratel Italia for the construction of the network in clusters C and D ie "white areas" with low population density. The plan provides for the implementation of FTTH optical fiber with speeds up to 1 Gbit / s for urban areas and agglomerations of housing units, while preparing FWA radio links for rural or impervious areas and scattered houses.[5]

References

Citations
  1. "Open fiber, ricavi e redditività in crescita - CorCom". www.corrierecomunicazioni.it (in Italian). Retrieved 2020-11-27.
  2. "Note Legali - Open Fiber". www.openfiber.it (in Italian).
  3. "PRESENTATO AL CDA ENEL IL PIANO STRATEGICO DI ENEL OPEN FIBER" (PDF). www.openfiber.it (in Italian).
  4. "ENEL ACCELERATES ON BROADBAND WITH METROWEB ACQUISITION". www.enel.com.
  5. "Intracom Telecom fornirà la sua soluzione leader nel Fixed Wireless Access a Open Fiber". www.intracom-telecom.com. Retrieved 2022-06-07.

Sources
  • Franco Bernabè (2020). "La concorrenza con Open Fiber e la parabola discendente". In Giuseppe Oddo (ed.). A conti fatti. Quarant'anni di capitalismo italiano (in Italian). Milan: Feltrinelli. ISBN 978-88-07-17374-5.
  • Andrea Colucci (March–April 2019). "Open Fiber. Innovazione e infrastrutture tecnologiche: un piano Marshall per la competitività del Paese". Italia Informa (in Italian). No. 2, anno III. Intervista a Elisabetta Ripa, amministratore delegato di Open Fiber. Rome: Gedecom. pp. 42–45. Retrieved 14 July 2020 – via italia-informa.com.
  • Federica Loffredo (2019). "Il ruolo di Open Fiber nel panorama italiano". Il modello Wholesale Only: la rivoluzione del nuovo codice delle comunicazioni elettroniche. Diritto ed Economia dei Mezzi di Comunicazione (in Italian). Vol. Anno XV, no. 2. Naples: Centro Consulenze Editoriali. pp. 118–122. ISSN 1827-0395.


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