Italian cellular market

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There are four commercial telecommunications network operators and one rail-internal radio network in the Italian mobile communications market . There are also several cell phone providers that operate on the market by renting the respective networks.

operator

Four network operators have been commercially in operation in Italy since May 2018: Telecom Italia , Wind Tre , Vodafone Italia and Iliad Italia . All companies have GSM , UMTS and LTE networks. Furthermore, the Italian Railways operates a GSM-R network through its infrastructure company RFI .

Telecom Italia Mobile

Telecom Italia Mobile (also: TIM ) was created in 1995 from a part of the State Telecom SIP and operated only as a mobile operator for 20 years. In 2015, all of the market activities of the parent company Telecom Italia were transferred to TIM , including fixed line and corporate services. TIM only exists as a brand of Telecom Italia.

Vodafone Italia

Vodafone Italia was founded in 1994 as Omnitel, which broke the monopoly of SIP (now TIM). At the end of 2003, Vodafone and Verizon Communications took over Omnitel and changed the brand name. In 2014, Verizon completely left Vodafone Italia. In 2015, the previously existing company "Vodafone Omnitel NV" was split into two subsidiaries and the head office was relocated to Italy.

Wind tre

Wind Telecomunicazioni and H3G were initially separate companies. WIND is the competitor for TIM and (then) Omnitel, founded in 1997 by the energy supplier Enel in cooperation with Deutsche Telekom and France Télécom . In 2003, ENEL was the sole owner of WIND. In 2005 WIND was sold to Weather Investments; WIND then sold them to VimpelCom in 2010 . H3G was the smallest of the Italian mobile operator, founded in 2000 as Andala, stabbed H3G 2002 blu by acquiring a UMTS license as the fourth operator from. The merger of WIND and H3G was announced in August 2015 and approved in September 2016. As a result, on December 31, 2016, Wind Tre emerged as Italy's third largest mobile operator.

Iliad Italia

As of May 29, 2018, Iliad Italia is the fourth Italian network operator and broadcasts under the MNC 222-50. The network consists of its own transmitters and an initially ten-year national roaming agreement with the competitor Wind Tre using all three available cellular technologies 2G (GSM) / 3G (UMTS) / 4G (LTE).

RFI

The Italian Railways operate a GSM-R network along the railways that is not visible to normal cell phones. The RFI systems are mostly equipped with two pairs of antennas for two sectors. Some base stations have antennas from another operator in addition to their own. These are usually larger and differ significantly from those of the RFI.

Market and Statistics

Tim Vodafone Italia Wind tre Iliad Italia
GSM coverage 99.8% 99.8% 99.9% na + wind tre roaming
UMTS coverage 96% 98.4% 98.8% na + wind tre roaming
LTE coverage 98% 98% 95.3% na + wind tre roaming
Customers 30.3 million 30.2 million 31.2 million 4.5 million
in percent 30.8% 28.9% 38.3% n / A

Frequency division

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Suppliers

Cisco Systems
Cisco Systems is Iliad Italy's supplier.

CommScope
CommScope is Iliad Italy's supplier.

Ericsson
Ericsson served as the supplier and administrator of Tre's network , as a supplier in the northeast for Wind and as a supplier in western Italy for Tim . With the merger, Wind and Tre ended their collaboration with Ericsson, Tim continues to buy Ericsson technology.

Huawei
Huawei is Vodafone's supplier for base stations in southern Italy and central Italy, for Tim in eastern central Italy and southern Italy and served as a supplier for Wind in central Italy. At the beginning of the LTE expansion, Huawei was supposed to supply the entire network for wind, but this cooperation was ended early. All three operators buy some of their antennas for all of Italy from Huawei.

Nokia
Nokia is Iliad's supplier and Vodafone's supplier for the north of Italy and Tim's supplier for the northeast. Until the merger of Wind and Tre, Nokia also supplied the technology for the south and northwest of the wind network. Nokia was the main supplier for Vodafone until the start of the LTE expansion and provided the technology for almost the entire network when Huawei was selected as the new supplier for central and southern Italy and the entire network was swapped.

Nortel, Alcatel and Siemens
Nortel, Alcatel and Siemens are former suppliers for the Italian cellular networks. Nortel worked for Vodafone and supplied parts of the north, after Nortel's bankruptcy the areas were switched to Nokia. Alcatel supplied the south of Italy for wind . In the 2000s, when Alcatel ran into financial difficulties, Siemens was hired as a new dealer. Since Siemens merged with Nokia, its technology was used until 2017.

ZTE
ZTE is the new network supplier for the WindTre network . The new machines are sometimes only operated for LTE alongside the old devices from Ericsson, Nokia and Huawei, or in southern Italy the old technology is being exchanged for ZTE. In the future, the entire network is to be converted to ZTE, and the old technology will be sold.

Web links

Commons : Telecommunications companies of Italy  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Sì dall'Europa alla fusione Wind-Tre. E arriva Iliad - Wired. September 1, 2016, accessed October 1, 2016 (it-IT).
  2. The Story of Tre (Italian)
  3. Italy's mobile operator Wind Tre starts after the merger
  4. Mobile: le "basta!" d'Iliad, qui se lance en Italie (fr) . In: La Tribune , May 29, 2018. 
  5. ^ Iliad Telecom: 10 anni di roaming con Wind Tre (Illiad Roaming on Wind) ( it ) Accessed April 1, 2018.
  6. RFI report on the GSM-R network. (Italian)
  7. Johann Silbernagl: http://www.silbernagl.biz/Mobilfunk/MobilfunkmarktItalien.php. In: www.silbernagl.biz. Retrieved April 1, 2018 .
  8. Iliad Launches 5G Ready IP Network Architecture with Segment Routing IPv6 in Italy. April 9, 2019, accessed April 14, 2019 .
  9. Iliad e Cisco insieme per l'architettura di rete IP 5G ready. April 18, 2019, accessed April 18, 2019 (Italian).
  10. Progetto di modifica di impianto di tecnologico radiotelecomunicazioni per telefonia cellulare. (PDF) Retrieved September 2, 2019 (Italian).
  11. http://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital/45009_rete-wind-3-timore-tagli-in-ericsson-zte-pronta-ad-assumere.htm
  12. ^ 5G: strategic agreement with European network equipment supplier Nokia. (PDF) September 2, 2019, accessed on September 2, 2019 .