Italy

Italy’s data protection agency reportedly indicated it will increase scrutiny of AI systems operating in the country, after forcing Microsoft-backed ChatGPT to make changes to become compliant with privacy rules following a temporary ban.

Italy’s data protection agency set Microsoft-backed OpenAI a deadline of end-April to meet its requirements around user privacy, in order to allow generative AI platform ChatGPT to resume service in the country.

Italy’s competition and market authority (AGCM) launched an investigation into TikTok’s European company in the Republic of Ireland and related units, accusing the social media player of failing to adequately monitor third-party content.

A trade union in Italy claimed Vodafone Group’s local unit plans to cut around 1,000 jobs, equating to almost 20 per cent of its workforce, with a proposal set to be presented to employee representatives on 13 March.

Open Fiber and its partners let the deadline on an agreement which would have paved the way to merge fixed assets with Telecom Italia’s expire, as the country’s government indicated it was assessing the future of a long-touted single…

LIVE FROM ZTE 5G SUMMIT, STRESA, ITALY: Cosimo Buccella, CTO of Italian wholesale provide OpNet (pictured) lauded the potential of 5G fixed wireless access (FWA) in Italy due to patchy progress in fibre rollouts, as he detailed plans to target operators with…

Tower company Inwit and fixed player Open Fiber pledged to collaborate on the provision of fixed wireless access (FWA) connectivity in areas lacking high-speed broadband services in Italy.