FASTWEB is the main alternative operator in the wide brand, fixed-line telecommunication in Italy.
Since it entered the market the day after the fixed-line telephony liberalization, FASTWEB developed a new generation of transmission networks totally alternative in comparison with the traditional telephone networks and widespread to the main Italian cities and urban areas.
FASTWEB competitive advantage is based on an unprecedented technological solution. It first combined the extensive use of IP (Internet Protocol) for the integrate management of voice, data and video with optical fiber and xDSL systems. This way it reached a dual goal: to offer its customers an almost unlimited band width, unrivalled in Italy and to achieve extreme efficiency in investments and infrastructures.
The availability of such a platform allowed to gather functions so far separated and offered the possibility to develop highly value-added and innovative services, which can be employed simultaneously with a single connection, the so-called Triple Play. This realizes the meeting of telecommunications, Internet and television.