On Thursday 21 January, the European Commission authorised public support of €325 million to provide 12,000 schools in Italy with very high-speed Internet connections. The schools benefitting from the measure are located in regions with insufficient connectivity, in line with the EU’s broadband connectivity objectives.
The Italian scheme aims to promote the deployment of a network to provide Italian schools with uplink and downlink speeds of 1 gigabit per second (Gbps). The measure...