CERNOBBIO, Italy (Reuters) – Alphabet’s Google stays in talks with Italy’s federal authorities over methods to determine base terminals in Sicily to determine framework for a submarine fiber optic cable tv community all through the Mediterranean, a closet undersecretary claimed on Tuesday.
“Google is very interested,” Undersecretary Alessio Butti knowledgeable press reporters on the sidelines of a pastoral convention of the Group of Seven progressed freedoms. “We are holding talks over base stations in Sicily.”
Google is presently partnering with Telecom Italia’s (TIM) submarine cable tv system, known as Sparkle, to run 2 submarine cable tv programs connecting the Middle East with southerly Europe and Asia.
TIM this month obtained in particular talks with Italy’s Treasury and its companion Asterion to market Sparkle byNov 30.
“The government considers Sparkle as a strategic company as 95 to 99% of internet traffic passes through submarine cables and about 16% involves the Mediterranean Sea,” Butti claimed.
(Reporting by Elvira Pollina; Editing by Bernadette Baum)
