Newsgroup: it.tlc.telefonia
Titolo: Telecom Italia considera l'abolizione della TUT! Il muro sta crollando!

In base a questo articolo, Telecom Italia ritiene l'abolizione della TUT,
ovvero le chiamate urbane gratuite (incluse nel canone), uno scenario
possibile!
Telecom Italia si occupera' della questione piu' tardi quest'anno!
Tratto da: 
http://www.techweb.com/wire/finance/story/INV19990917S0004
Telecom Italia Banks On Net After Profit Dive
(09/17/99, 1:47 p.m. ET)
By Ruth Sullivan, TechWeb 
Telecom Italia announced its first half-year profits had fallen almost 30 per
cent to $947 million on Thursday, but the company said it hoped to boost
flagging results through its aggressive Internet strategy. 
Industry observers said they expect Italy's young Internet market to grow to 3
million users by year's end, and Telecom Italia said it plans to gain a large
slice of it. "We hope to increase our subscribers to two million by the end of
this year," said a Telecom Italia spokesman on Friday. 
Telecom Italia's offer of free Internet access to Tin.it, which started at the
beginning of the month, has attracted a flurry of subscribers whose numbers
increased 60 percent between January and June to 625,000. 
Tin.it already has 50 percent of the Italian market. 
Roberto Colaninno, who took over as CEO of Telecom Italia after his company
Olivetti won a hostile bid for the telecom group in May, said he aimed to
increase the leading edge the company had in the Italian Internet market. 
But he has competition. 
"We may have started our free Clubnet package late, but we aim to make up for
that now," added a company spokesman. Tiscali, a private start-up Internet
provider was first on the scene with a free Internet access offer, but so far
its reach is limited to Sardinia, Rome, and Milan. Other areas will follow and
more competitors are expected to break into the growing Internet market, which
will force the former state-owned monopoly to continue its new-found
competitive approach. 
Telecom Italia said it had no plans to discontinue its free-access strategy
and is confident Tin.it will survive against the more than one hundred
providers in Europe, including AOL Europe which is also offering free access. 
Ross Pow, principal analyst at U.K.-based consulting group Analysys, said he
expected the incentive of free access to have a "significant effect on Telecom
Italia's business model." On the Internet competition front he said, "Telecom
Italia is a dominant player with strong distribution in its home market."
While he expected any new incumbents "to erode a part of Telecom Italia's
market share," he did not expect upstart companies to provide hard
competition. 
When asked if free Internet access might lead to customer demand for free
phone calls, Telecom Italia said it could be a possible scenario. 
"We do not know if that would be possible but we will be dealing with this
issue later in the year," said a Telecom Italia spokesman. 
If Telecom Italia does adopt the strategy of free phone calls -- as a few ISPs
and the leading telecom has in the United Kingdom, Pow said the company "might
shift to six monthly charges so that it could claw back lost call revenue
through increased line-rental prices". 
The company said it planned to expand its Internet services shortly but would
not reveal any details. 
Emanuele Mancuso
Iniziativa popolare per l'abolizione della tariffa urbana a tempo
www.abolizione.org
Moderatore di it.discussioni.abolizione-tut
Membro Internet Society - 
www.isoc.org

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Dal Sole 24 ore di oggi  venerdi' 24 settembre (riporto a braccio ma
e' o.k.).
Tin it sta preparandosi ad uno spin-off (distacco finanziario con
quotazioni a parte in borsa). Colaninno annuncia (anche se
nell'articolo non e' chiaro se si riferisca ad internet esattamente o
ad altra parte del core business telecom) due iniziative trategiche di
nuove offerte di servizi.
Un dirigente tecnico Telecom definisce queste offerte 'rivoluzonarie'.
??????
 Commento:
Una di queste e' la tariffa flat? O la asdl - magari a 20 milioni
all'anno.? Vedremo...
certo in Italia la rivoluzione non c'e' mai stata, e proprio per
questo vediamo il continuo trionfo dei re (oligarchi monopolisti).
Gigi

Speriamo bene!!!!!