- Fastweb (telecommunications company)
Infobox Company
name = FASTWEB S.p.A.
type = Public (ISE|IT0001423562|FWB)
genre =
foundation = 1999 Milan
founder =
location_city = Milan
location_country = Italy
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industry = Telecommunications
products =
services = Internet, on-demand TV
revenue = €1260m (2006)
operating_income = €425m (2006)
net_income = -€124m (2006)
assets =
equity =
owner =Swisscom (82%)
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homepage = [http://company.fastweb.it/index.php http://company.fastweb.it]
footnotes =
intl =FASTWEB S.p.A. (ISE|IT0001423562|FWB) is an Italian broadband telecommunications company. It provides voice, Internet and cable and
IPTV television andFTTH connection. Thecable television andIPTV service was developed by Fastweb themselves as the technology market in 2000 was not mature enough to offer the level of sophistication required to deploy and manage a premium service. Fastweb rapidly became the leading reference worldwide for how to create and build IPTV services, employing a mixture of own developed middleware and Set Top Box softwareFact|date=December 2007In May 2007, the Swiss telecommunications company
Swisscom paid 3 billion euros for 82.4% of Fastweb. [ [http://www.swisscom.com/GHQ/content/Media/Medienmitteilungen/2007/20070515_02_Fastweb.htm Press release of May 15, 2007: "Swisscom's bid for Fastweb was successful"] ] Fastweb retains its stock market listing and remains a distinct operating entity.TV di Fastweb
TV di Fastweb is Fastweb's
cable television andIPTV service. Its major features are theOn Demand channels (a total of 17), with also anHDTV On Demand channel, and an advanced interactive service, available thanks to the "Videostation", the decoder TV di Fastweb gives to its subriscribers.The TV di Fastweb service is available also without subscribing any telephone nor
ADSL offer since September 2007.TV di Fastweb is the only cable television network in
Italy , but not for theIPTV , where there are other three companies (Tiscali TV (Italy) ,Alice Home TV andInfostrada TV ).Fastweb TV Channels
References
External links
* [http://company.fastweb.it/setLanguage.php?idL=2&url=/index.php? Fastweb]
* [http://www.kasenna.com Kasenna -Provider of Video on Demand Server Technology]
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