On Monday 25 April, the European Commission authorised a €2 billion Italian scheme under the Recovery and Resilience Facility (‘RRF’) for the deployment of high-performance 5G mobile networks.
Margrethe Vestager, Executive Vice-President in charge of competition policy, said that the support would ensure that the country’s consumers and businesses would be able to “access high-quality 5G services, contributing to the economic growth of the country and to the EU’s strategic...