Edition: 2010
Pages: 230
Series: GO
ISBN: 9788842091295
Subject area: Storia dell'impresa

Fastweb 1999-2009. The story of an innovative firm

Valerio Castronovo - Giovanni Paoloni

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In 1999, a year of great upheaval for Italian telecommunications, Fastweb was created in Milan. From an industrial and technological perspective the proposed project was highly innovative: the construction of a fibre optics network and the adoption of the IP protocol for the transmission of voice, data and video. Ten years after taking up the challenge, Fastweb has proved massively successful. Its network is the standard for new generation Internet services and its market presence has been extended from Milan to the rest of the country, making it today the leading protagonist among the actors who emerged as a result of deregulation and the euphoria for the net economy.

The authors

Valerio Castronovo

Valerio Castronovo, former full professor of contemporary history at the University of Turin, is editor of the history review “Prometeo”. Among his publications with us: Storia dell’economia mondiale (six volumes, edited by, 1996-2002); Un passato che ritorna. L’Europa e la sfida dell’Asia (2006); Le rivoluzioni del capitalismo (n.e., 2007); Piazze e caserme. I dilemmi dell’America Latina dal Novecento a oggi (2007); Cento anni di imprese. Storia di Confindustria 1910-2010 (2010²); Novecento italiano (i.a., 2011²).

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Giovanni Paoloni

Giovanni Paoloni teaches General Archive Studies in the Specialist School for Archivists and Librarians at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”. He is specialized in the archives and historical events of businesses and scientific research institutes in Italy, from unification to the post-war period. His publications include: Lincei in United Italy (Rome 2004) and Vito Volterra (co-written with A. Guerraggio, Milan 2008).

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