Italy dangles €3.7 billion in broadband funding

Italy has launched a major ultra-broadband tender worth €3.7 billion just days after it failed to attract interest in its first attempt to allocate EU funding.
The government has launched the ‘Italia a 1 Giga’ project and interested parties have a couple of months to register, the Ministry for Technological Innovation and Digital Transition (MITD) announced.
There was some doubt over whether the scheme would get underway in January as scheduled, with certain factions in governme