Pnrr, Foti: ‘Italy 1 Giga in difficulty, diverted about 500 million to achieve the goal’. SLC-CGIL: ‘The review favors satellite’

To summarize: there are problems with the target, translated: they have not succeeded, or they will be able to complete the coverage of Italy at 1gbps within the times established by the PNRR. Of course satellites and optical fiber are different things in terms of performance and reliability.

So they diverted 500mln to another “fastest” tool, that the unions say to be Elon Musk’s satellites, to say so “well we reached the targets”. Even if satellites and fiber are two different things, I don’t know what the PNRR obligations were.

“The Italian Plan 1 Giga has proven to have of difficulties, partly due to the increase in costs and partly to the lack of work of work“. Thus the Minister for European Affairs, PNRR and Cohesion Policies, Tommaso Foti, on the revision of the PNRR illustrated today in the classroom in the Senate.

“From this point of view – added Foti – we diverted a part of resources, about 500 million euros, in a financial instrument right to achieve the goal (the National Connectivity Fund, mentioned in the Proposal for reviewing the PNRR ed)

He confirmed the birth of this new national connectivity fund, and spoke of a hijacking of around 500 million euros. Figure different from that previously emerged, equal to 700 million euros, also proposed for a new assignment of about 145 million for satellite coversoriginally not foreseen by the initial announcement of the PNRR.

In this regard, today is a somewhat critical note on the revision of the Italian Plan 1 Giga and on the establishment of the new National Connectivity Fund by the SLC-CGIL, which aims the finger at the will by the Government to “force” the current rules and custody related to digital infrastructure projects financed by the PNRR, in favor of the introduction of satellite technology. In short, to want to do a favor to the satellite (read Starlink), as already hypothesized by the union last January Following the call for satellite experimentation in Lombardy, a technology not foreseen by the Italian 1 Giga plan. The union critical also, among other things, the need to ban yet another call, preceded by the umpteenth consultation with private individuals, for the coverage of 580 thousand civic civic who remained discovered.