Telecom Italia keen to discuss fiber-to-the-home tie-up with Open Fiber: CEO

Telecom Italia (TIM) is willing to discuss a combination of the Italian phone group's fiber-to-the-home broadband operations with that of smaller rival Open Fiber, Chief Executive Amos Genish said on Wednesday. "We are clearly seeing the economical benefits coming from such business combination on the fiber-to-the-home efforts only," Genish told a journalist briefing. The executive, who took over at Italy's biggest phone group last year, also said a three-year business plan presented in March was proceeding well and he was encouraged by the feedback he had received from rating agencies.