Italy considers tax breaks for ultrafast broadband rollout: Draft

MILAN: Italy plans to widen a tax break scheme aimed at cutting power usage to include work to bring ultra-fast broadband to buildings, a draft decree showed, as the country works to close its digital gap with the rest of Europe.

The European Union’s third-largest economy ranks second to last among the bloc’s 27 member states in Internet usage, the latest EU data show.

Around 17% of Italians have never used the web and only 13% of households subscribe to superfast broadband connections of at least 100 megabytes.