Italian broadband recovery plan in doubt after small islands failure

Italy’s telecoms players have all declined to take part in a project to roll out high-speed broadband in its islands, an outcome that could have a knock-on effect.
The first ultrabroadband tender under the Italian National Recovery and Resilience Plan, known locally as PNRR, was designed to allocated €60.5 million in funding to network builders, systems integrators and so forth, for the build out of submarine fibre-optic cables to provide fast broadband to around 20 so-called minor is