Italy PM tasks top aide with broadband strategy as bid for TIM grid falters

MILAN: Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has given one of her top aides powers to oversee Rome’s strategy on ultra-fast broadband networks as the new right-wing government reviews plans for the country’s biggest telecoms company Telecom Italia (TIM).

Cabinet undersecretary Alessio Butti will now be in charge of the strategy, according to a decree on Friday seen by Reuters. Butti has been critical of the previous government’s plan to cut TIM’s 25 billion euro ($26 billion) debt pile by selling its landline grid.