Sparkle
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Sparkle is accelerating its enterprise strategy, with a central focus on multi-vendor end-to-end services -
Telecom Italia (TIM) confirmed it has received a €700 million bid from Italy’s Ministry of Economy and Finance and Asterion subsidiary Retelit to purchase Sparkle.
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Sparkle, the University of Genoa, and the SubOptic Foundation have teamed to establish the world’s first post-graduate degree dedicated to submarine fibre optic cables.
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The partnership will see Airtel Business benefit from additional capacity on the Blue and Raman submarine cable systems
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Sparkle has announced the successful completion of a Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) proof of concept (PoC) centred around quantum-safe Internet use with the commercial launch planned for later in the year.
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The new submarine cable system will utilise Sparkle's infrastructure to access to key Internet Exchange points in Europe
Forthcoming events
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April 2019 saw Sparkle, the international service provider arm of TIM Group, announce plans to build a new 1,000km system that will cross the Tyrrhenian Sea linking Sparkle’s Sicily Hub data centre in Palermo to Genoa’s new open cable landing station.
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The new chairman of Sparkle, TIM’s international wholesale carrier division, is to be Alessandro Pansa, who spent 43 years in the Italian police, specialising in security.
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Sparkle has announced plans to build BlueMed, a new submarine cable connecting Palermo with Genoa, Italy.
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Opinion is divided about the implications of Friday’s decision by Vivendi to call an armistice in its battle with Elliott over control of TIM, the former Telecom Italia.
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In a surprise move at TIM’s shareholders’ meeting in Milan today, Vivendi, the biggest shareholder, decided to support Luigi Gubitosi as CEO.
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Rival shareholders in Telecom Italia – now TIM – are meeting today in Milan to decide the future of the troubled company.
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Sparkle has expanded its network reach with a new point of presence (PoP) in Bogotá, Columbia.
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The battle between the two rival shareholders in TIM today reached an extraordinary level of abuse, just over two weeks ahead of the company’s meeting of shareholders.
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Sparkle has replaced Riccardo Delleani as CEO only 11 months after he started the job, and replaced him with Mario Di Mauro, until Friday chief innovation and customer experience officer of parent company TIM.
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Sparkle has launched a partnership with Italian-Swiss service provider Internet.One for the supply of international capacity to support the ONE.vision automated shooting system.
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Riccardo Delleani came back to run Sparkle in April 2018, six years after leaving. Alan Burkitt-Gray asks him about his investment plans but also looks at what’s going on in parent company TIM
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Luigi Gubitosi, CEO of TIM, and Elisabetta Ripa, CEO of Open Fiber, met yesterday to discuss a possible merger of their national fibre networks, TIM has told Capacity.
