TIM locks horns with Italian state over rural broadband

The artist formerly known as Telecom Italia has been warned not to mess with the government’s infrastructure plans but it says it will do what it wants.
According to La Repubblica, the Italian government wants to roll out publicly-funded fibre to areas of claimed ‘market failure’ – i.e. rural areas that currently have little or no good broadband access. However it looks like TIM also wants to have a go at addressing this issue, which has displeased the government.
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