Fastweb (telecommunications company)

FASTWEB S.p.A.
FASTWEB S.p.A.
Type	Public (BIT: FWB)
Founded	1999 Milan
Headquarters	Milan, Italy
Industry	Telecommunications
Services	Internet, on-demand TV
Revenue	€1260m (2006)
Operating income	€425m (2006)
Net income	-€124m (2006)
Owner	Swisscom (82%)
Website	http://company.fastweb.it

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FASTWEB S.p.A. (BIT: FWB) is an Italian broadband telecommunications company. It provides voice, Internet and cable and IPTV television and FTTH connection. The cable television and IPTV 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 software^{[citation needed]}

In May 2007, the Swiss telecommunications company Swisscom paid 3 billion euros for 82.4% of Fastweb.^[1] Fastweb retains its stock market listing and remains a distinct operating entity.

[edit] TV di Fastweb

TV di Fastweb is Fastweb's cable television and IPTV service. Its major features are the On Demand channels (a total of 17), with also an HDTV 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 the IPTV, where there are other three companies (Tiscali TV (Italy), Alice Home TV and Infostrada TV).