ARTICLE · 20 OCTOBER 1995
Liberalization of Italian Telecommunications Services
ItalyMedia, Telecoms, IT, Entertainment
Recent Utilities Legislation
As of October 28, 1995, private persons may apply to provide telecommunication services other than voice transmission in Italy under new regulations which implement the Legislative Decree of March 17, 1995, no. 103, which carried EEC Directive no. 388 of 1990 into national law. These regulations are contained in the Presidential Decree of September 4, 1995, no. 420, which was published in the Italian Official Gazette on October 13, 1995.
Decree 420/1995 states that all telecommunication services other than general voice transmission are liberalized. "Voice transmission service" is defined in Legislative Decree 103/1995, as: "furnishing the public with direct transport and switching of voice in real time, originating and ending on points of the public switch system, that allows each user to use the equipment attached to his or her terminal point of such system to communicate with another terminal point" (see Art. 1(1)(g), Leg. Decree 103/1995).
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