Fastweb is one of the leading telecommunications operators in Italy with one of the most extensive proprietary ultra-broadband infrastructures in Europe. Since its establishment in 1999, the company has invested more than 11 billion euros in the network and today is continuing its journey towards becoming an Over the Top infrastructure operator, with the aim of providing an increasingly large percentage of the population with innovative digital services, simply and quickly, by leveraging the excellence of its new generation infrastructure.
Fastweb's network infrastructure at the end of 2023 is 69,300 kilometres long and spans the entire country. Since its foundation in 1999, the company has laid more than 4 million kilometres of fibre optic cable throughout the country. Thanks to the expansion and upgrading of its ultra-broadband network, Fastweb now reaches a total of 26 million homes and businesses, of which 8 million with its own network using Fiber-to-the-Home technology (fibre to the home) with connection speeds of up to 1 Gigabit or Fiber-to-the-Node (fibre to the intermediate node) with speeds of up to 200 Megabits per second. Furthermore, in the less infrastructured areas of the country, Fastweb covers 1,000 municipalities with its Ultra Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) network.
Check here the cities reached and the connection technologies
From 2020, Fastweb is also committed to building a 5G mobile network in partnership with WindTre with the aim of covering 90% of the population with fifth-generation technology by 2026. Fastweb's 5G mobile service now covers 75% of the population.
Thanks to 5G technology, Fastweb is accelerating its journey to become an Over the Top infrastructure operator by evolving its networks towards FTTA, i.e. the “fibre to the antenna“ model, with a view to rapidly developing a high-performance, secure and reliable fifth-generation network nationwide. Find out more.
Check here the cities reached by 5G mobile coverage.
In areas not reached by the fifth-generation mobile network, Fastweb offers 4G connectivity with speeds of up to 1 Gbps per second in download and 75 Mbps in upload thanks to mobile network coverage that is among the best in Italy.
Fastweb has the latest generation of Data Centres in Italy, interconnected to the network, which provide services based on Cloud Computing technology and enable the most advanced cybersecurity solutions.
In addition to the cutting-edge Tier IV-certified Data Center in Milan and the brand-new Data Center in Rome, Fastweb has added “proximity“ infrastructures to offer its customers even more powerful data processing services and additional “cloud first“ computing capacity, with the aim of accelerating the development and adoption of new solutions, based on the Internet of Things and Artificial Intelligence, by businesses and the public administration.
