“The company’s General Manager highlights the need to move beyond the logic of infrastructure-based competition: ‘Companies must understand the strategic value of connectivity, but the market needs to be supported through sustainable investments and greater digital literacy.”
The digital lag affecting Italy’s productive areas is not just an infrastructure issue. According to Fulvio Siotto, the challenge lies in the gap between the certain cost of investments and the difficulty of making companies perceive the strategic value of connectivity. Ultra-broadband, he explains to CorCom, is no longer an ancillary service: it enables cloud computing, cybersecurity, video surveillance, automation and, increasingly, applications related to artificial intelligence.
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