(Finance) – The works of Open Fiber as part of the government plan for the development of fast internet in Villa San Giovanni (Reggio Calabria) where the new public ultra-broadband telecommunications network created as part of the BUL (Ultra Broadband) Plan came into operation. The latest generation infrastructure covers 280 real estate units, through the FTTH (Fibre-to-the-home) mode, i.e. the optical fiber extended up to the inside of the buildings) the only one capable of providing connection speeds of up to 10 Gigabit per second.
The municipal areas affected by the intervention – Open Fiber reports – are specifically the village of Piale and the Corap industrial area. The telecommunications network extends for approximately 6 kilometers and, among other buildings, reaches in particular the “Fermi” Nautical Institute which will therefore be able to make use of all those high-tech services that were previously impossible to implement. The total amount of the project is approximately 300 thousand euros.
The works were conducted by Open Fiber, a joint-stock company called upon to create the infrastructure that allows citizens and businesses to access the Internet with effective and cutting-edge performance. The resources allocated do not burden the Municipality’s budget: the infrastructure is in fact financed with regional and state funds and will remain public property. The activities are coordinated by Infratel Italia, an in-house company of the Ministry of Economic Development, with the careful supervision of the Calabria Region.
“Thanks to the FTTH network and the Open Fiber cabling project, the industrial area of Villa and the hamlet of Piale – areas so far on the fringes of the digitalisation process – are equipped with an ultrabroadband network capable of delivering ever-increasing volumes of data traffic This allows citizens, economic operators and entities present in those areas to finally be able to compete on an equal footing with other territories more interested in the past by technological investments”, he explains Giuseppe Crupi, field manager of the company led by CEO Giuseppe Gola.