Iliad Italia S.p.A. is an Italian

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, part of the

Iliad The ''Iliad'' (; grc, Ἰλιάς, Iliás, ; "a poem about Ilium") is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. It is one of the oldest extant works of literature still widely read by modern audiences. As with the ''Odysse ...

group. In March 2022, with 8.82 million active

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, it is the fourth

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in Italy following

Wind Tre Wind Tre S.p.A. (formerly H3G S.p.A.) is an Italian telecommunications company of the CK Hutchison Holdings Limited group, which offers mobile and fixed telephony services. It began as a mobile telephone operator in 1999, with the name ''And ...

, TIM and

Vodafone Italy Vodafone Italia S.p.A. (formerly Vodafone Omnitel N.V.) is an Italian telephone company, subsidiary of Vodafone Group Plc. It has 30,153,000 mobile phone customers and 3,182,000 fixed phone lines, with respectively a market share of 28.5% and ...

History

Iliad Italia S.p.A. was founded in 2016 as an

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of the French group Iliad S.A. In 2017, in view of the launch and in compliance with the provisions of the

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, the acquisition of the frequencies ceased by

began following the merger of

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and 3 Italy; as of 31 December 2017, Iliad has acquired almost 300 of the sites abandoned by Wind Tre, while the remaining will be transferred, according to the agreements, by the end of 2019. The French holding said it would invest more than €1 billion for the launch and development of the new Italian

(including those to win the new 5G

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in Italy) and also expected about a thousand hires. On 16 January 2018 the name of the Italian administrator of Iliad Italia, Benedetto Levi, was officially announced, together with the presentation of the new logo and the institutional

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. As part of the implementation of the infrastructures required to cover the Italian territory with its own network, on 16 February 2018, an agreement was reached with the

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group

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, which provides Iliad Italia with over 7700 cellular

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in Italy. Finally, on 29 May 2018, the official launch of the operator took place, in conjunction with the presentation of the commercial offer and the start of the sale of

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s with new numbers or to carry out the number portability from other phone operators. On 18 July 2018, just under two months after its launch, Iliad Italia officially announced that it had reached one million customers between requests for portability and new subscriptions. On 4 September 2018, the Iliad group releases the results of the first half of 2018, reporting the achievement – by early August – of one and a half million

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s in Italy. On 6 September 2018, Iliad Italia issued a

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confirming the achievement of two million customers. During the first semester of 2021, Iliad reached the

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point and an

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of 6 millions euro, the first positive result since its foundation. As of September 2021, its Italian

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counted about 8.200 active site nodes.

Simbox distributions

Iliad introduced the Simboxes in

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, a new type of sales point, conceived and created by the French group, ''Aures'' and already in use since 2014 on the French market by

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; these are

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s, which allow customers to register and purchase it independently.

Network

Iliad's 3G, 4G and 5G network is being implemented; however, the operator benefits from national coverage through an agreement with

in RAN sharing (3G and 4G) and

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(2G). Iliad signed an agreement, respectively, with

(February 2018) and

INWIT Infrastrutture Wireless Italiane S.p.A. or, in abbreviated form, INWIT S.p.A., is an Italian company headquartered in Milan, which operates in the wireless network infrastructure sector. With over 11 thousand towers, INWIT is currently Italy's m ...

(February 2019) in order to install its

on their

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. Iliad Italia is currently using, among others,

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and is collaborating with

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(April 2019) and

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(September 2019) to implement a

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national network (

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) in Italy based on

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(SRv6) and to achieve its 5G network.

References

External links

* {{Italian mobile phone companies Companies based in Milan Mobile phone companies of Italy Telecommunications companies established in 2016 Iliad