Iliad Italia S.p.A. was founded in 2016 as an
Italian subsidiary of the
French group Iliad In 2017, in view of the launch and in compliance with the provisions of the
European Commission, the
acquisition of the frequencies ceased by
Wind Tre began following the
merger of
3 Italy and
Wind; as of 31 December 2017, Iliad has acquired almost 300 of the sites abandoned by Wind Tre, while the remaining will be transferred, according to the agreements, by the end of 2019. The French holding said it would invest more than €1 billion for the launch and development of the new Italian
mobile operator (including those to win the new
5G frequencies in Italy) with a thousand expected hires. On 16 January 2018 the name of the Italian
administrator of Iliad Italia, Benedetto Levi, was officially announced, together with the presentation of the new logo and the institutional
Website. As part of the implementation of the infrastructures required to cover the Italian territory with its own network, on 16 February 2018, an agreement was reached with the
Spanish group
Cellnex, which provides Iliad Italia with over 7700 cellular
antennas in Italy. Finally, on 29 May 2018, the official launch of the operator took place, in conjunction with the presentation of the commercial offer and the start of the sale of
SIM cards with new numbers or to carry out the
number portability from other phone operators. On 18 July 2018, just under two months after its launch, Iliad Italia officially announced that it had reached one million customers between requests for portability and new subscriptions. On 4 September 2018, the Iliad group releases the results of the first half of 2018, reporting the achievement – by early August – of one and a half million
customers in Italy. On 6 September 2018, Iliad Italia issued a
press release confirming the achievement of two million customers. During the first semester of 2021, Iliad reached the
break-even point and an
EBITDA of 6 million euro, the first positive result since its foundation. On 6 March 2020 Iliad Italia obtained general authorization from the
Ministry of Economic Development for the provision of the telephone service accessible to the public. On 7 July 2020, the signing of an agreement was formalized thanks to which Iliad can operate in the fixed telephony market using the
Open Fiber FTTH fiber-optic access network, which is accompanied by a similar agreement signed with
Fastweb on 6 October 2022. On 9 August 2021 Iliad became a partner of
FiberCop, while on 25 January 2022 the FTTH fiber optic offer was officially launched, with overall speeds of up to 5 Gbps in download and 700 Mbps in upload for the areas covered by the technology
EPON, and up to 2.5 Gbps in download and 500 Mbps in upload for the areas covered by
GPON technology. The service is provided using the Open Fiber and FiberCop networks. The operator provides
modem-
routers on loan for use, called
iliadboxes, designed by the company itself and based on the French
freeboxes. As of January 2023, its Italian
mobile network counted about 16,200 active site nodes: the network is composed by an own-network of about 9,470 sites with another 6,730 sites in non-densely populated areas via an equal
joint venture – namely,
Zefiro Net – between Iliad Italia and Wind Tre. == Simbox distributions ==