FASTWEB CHOOSES EUTELSAT TO BRING BROADBAND SATELLITE CONNECTIONS IN ITALY

13.11.08 - 04:12 ... source : Eutelsat

... Closed an agreement to use the Tooway™ system Milan, Paris, November 12, 2008 – FASTWEB, Italy's second-largest fixed telecommunications provider has signed an industrial agreement with Eu telsat Communications (Euronext Paris: ETL ) via its Skylogic broadband subsidiary that will allow FASTWEB to extend the coverage of broadband service through satellite connections. FASTWEB's network currently reaches 50% of the population. Thanks to the satellite connectivity provided by Eutelsat's Tooway™ service, broadband access will in the future be available to companies, local governments and homes located in areas which were previously impossible to reach. In fact, FASTWEB's services will have the potential to be extended to areas where no broadband provider is present – representing approximately 6% of Italian territory – thus enabling the elimination of the infrastructural digital divide. T ...» Next (PDF)