Italy near to cop-out over plans to merge wholesale fibre companies.

Both FiberCop and Open Fiber act as equal access wholesale providers, and a merger would have created a monopoly wholesale fibre company for the whole country. The idea had been to merge FiberCop, which TIM - the former Telecom Italia - had created with Swisscom's rival fibre company Fastweb, completely with Open Fiber, owned by Cassa Depositi e Prestiti (CDP), a state bank, and electricity company Enel. [Extracted from the article]