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Italy's digital future seen at stake in battle for Metroweb

2014-12-18 21:08:56| Telecom - Topix.net

A small company renting out optical fiber cables in Milan has become the subject of a fierce takeover battle between Telecom Italia and global mobile giant Vodafone, with a national high-speed fiber network seen as the ultimate prize. But what should have been a straightforward deal has turned into a full-blown political and regulatory row as deciding on the buyer of the stake could determine who calls the shots in a multi-billion-euro plan to build the nationwide fiber network.

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