{"id":975184,"date":"2025-11-20T08:25:55","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T02:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=975184"},"modified":"2025-11-20T08:34:34","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T03:04:34","slug":"italy-considers-5g-telecoms-licence-extensions-with-lower-costs-tied-to-investment-pledges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/11\/20\/italy-considers-5g-telecoms-licence-extensions-with-lower-costs-tied-to-investment-pledges\/","title":{"rendered":"Italy considers 5G telecoms licence extensions with lower costs tied to investment pledges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MILAN: Italy is considering extending 5G licences while limiting costs for operators in return for investment pledges, a cabinet undersecretary said on Tuesday, as the telecom sector contends with falling revenue and lower margins.<\/p>\n<p>Telecoms operators are lobbying for a free extension of their 10-year licences after Italy raised 6.5 billion euros ($7.5 billion) from a 5G mobile auction in 2018 that drew ferocious bidding.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The renewal cannot be automatic, but you know I&#8217;ve long been one of the strongest supporters of avoiding a cash-driven approach in favour of clear investment commitments,&#8221; Alessio Butti said at a business conference in Rome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MILAN: Italy is considering extending 5G licences while limiting costs for operators in return for investment pledges, a cabinet undersecretary said on Tuesday, as the telecom sector contends with falling revenue and lower margins. Telecoms operators are lobbying for a free extension of their 10-year licences after Italy raised 6.5 billion euros ($7.5 billion) from a 5G mobile auction in 2018 that drew ferocious bidding. &#8220;The renewal cannot be automatic, but you know I&#8217;ve long been one of the strongest supporters of avoiding a cash-driven approach in favour of clear investment commitments,&#8221; Alessio Butti said at a business conference in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-975184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=975184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=975184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=975184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=975184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}