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Fastweb S.p.A.

Fastweb is a major Italian telecommunications provider focusing on fiber networks and AI services.

Lobbying Activity

Meeting with Nicola Zingaretti (Member of the European Parliament)

10 Nov 2025 · TLC Sector

Meeting with Francesco Torselli (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur)

5 Nov 2025 · Incontro conoscitivo

Meeting with Manuel Mateo Goyet (Acting Head of Unit Communications Networks, Content and Technology) and Cattaneo Zanetto Pomposo Co.

4 Nov 2025 · Exchange of views on Fastweb’s work in the AI sector and the Cloud and AI development Act

Meeting with Nicola Zingaretti (Member of the European Parliament)

31 Oct 2025 · TLC Sector

Fastweb calls for simplified and coherent EU digital regulations

14 Oct 2025
Topic — The EU is streamlining digital regulations to reduce administrative burdens for businesses.
Message — The company requests harmonized cybersecurity reporting to eliminate redundant national and European filings. They also want technology-neutral privacy rules to ensure fair competition with internet platforms. Finally, they suggest avoiding AI requirements that are currently technically impossible to achieve.123
Why — Simplified procedures would increase operational agility and lower costs for essential digital networks.4567
Impact — Global tech platforms may lose their competitive advantage through stricter market-access conditions.8
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Meeting with Isabella Tovaglieri (Member of the European Parliament)

14 Oct 2025 · Sistema di reti in Italia

Meeting with Flavio Tosi (Member of the European Parliament)

14 Oct 2025 · Digital Omnibus

Fastweb and Vodafone demand compensation for EU anti-piracy costs

4 Jun 2025
Topic — Evaluation of European Union recommendations regarding the prevention of online sports piracy.
Message — The EU should mandate compensation for costs incurred from anti-piracy technology. Companies must also remain free from general monitoring obligations under digital regulations.1
Why — Compensating these costs would protect the profit margins of internet service providers.2
Impact — Rights holders would face new financial obligations to pay for ISP blocking services.3
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Meeting with Roberto Viola (Director-General Communications Networks, Content and Technology) and

15 Apr 2025 · AI projects and market developments

Meeting with Lucrezia Busa (Head of Unit Communications Networks, Content and Technology)

4 Apr 2025 · Evolution of the Italian Electronic Communication Markets

Meeting with Lucilla Sioli (Director Communications Networks, Content and Technology) and Unknown Organization

4 Apr 2025 · Exchange on AI priorities, cloud and use of AI in telecoms

Fastweb Warns EU Digital Infrastructure Proposals Threaten Competition

30 Jun 2024
Topic — The Commission is consulting on scenarios to improve Europe's digital infrastructure and single market.
Message — Fastweb expresses high concern regarding specific scenarios proposed for the digital infrastructure market. They argue that implementing these particular scenarios would undermine competition and harm Europe's long-term competitiveness.12
Why — The company would avoid new regulatory hurdles that could compromise its market position.3
Impact — End-users would suffer from reduced service quality and fewer choices in the digital market.4
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Meeting with Roberto Viola (Director-General Communications Networks, Content and Technology)

29 Jan 2024 · DSA / DMA

Meeting with Marco Piantini (Cabinet of Commissioner Paolo Gentiloni)

24 Jan 2024 · - Exchange of views on telecommunication and digital services; - Implementation of the Italian recovery plan and digital services.

Meeting with Brando Benifei (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur)

24 Jan 2024 · Presentation of Fastweb's initiatives on Artificial Intelligence

Meeting with Eleonora Ocello (Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton) and Vodafone Stiftung Deutschland gGmbH and Wind Tre s.p.a.

31 Mar 2023 · Italian telecoms markets

Fastweb urges simpler rules for reporting foreign state subsidies

6 Mar 2023
Topic — Procedures for the notification of concentrations and public procurement under the foreign subsidies regulation.
Message — Fastweb requests that the effective notification date be the date of receipt. They also urge the Commission to limit information requirements to reduce administrative burdens.12
Why — Simplified procedures would prevent companies from being excluded from tenders due to minor shortcomings.34
Impact — EU companies without foreign funding might face unfair competition if reporting standards are lowered.5
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Meeting with Thierry Breton (Commissioner) and

8 Apr 2022 · Endorsing the Joint statement on Roaming and International calls between EU and Ukraine

Meeting with Thierry Breton (Commissioner) and

29 Mar 2022 · Efforts to facilitate Roaming with Ukraine

Response to Initiative for reviewing and prolonging the “Roaming Regulation”

4 May 2021

We welcome the revision and recast of the RLAH regulation and the lifting of certain regulatory obligations providing for more clarity. However, the RLAH proposal presents some critical issues concerning the value of the wholesale caps for data and voice and the inclusion of certain provisions concerning quality of service, value-added services and access to emergency services that could generate more costs and complexity for operators to the detriment of end-users at the end. Regarding wholesale caps for voice and data, their values are still excessively high and will produce negative effects for competition and end-users alike. In particular, the wholesale caps proposed by the European Commission will: i) render the RLAH mechanism unsustainable for smaller mobile operators and MVNOs; ii) hamper competition between operators to the detriment of end-users, innovation and competition on prices and services offered; iii) render costs level incompatible with the evolution of offers in the retail market; iv) not consider the relevant increase of data traffic consumption per SIM compared to the decrease of retail prices; v) differ significantly from the national wholesale costs for voice and data services, while similarities of costs should be at the core of RLAH mechanism. It is crucial thus to reduce the wholesale caps further, namely at the level of domestic costs. Regarding the inclusion of quality of service, value-added services and emergency services we consider the following: 1) requesting roaming providers to ensure the same quality of service to end-users domestically and abroad is not feasible due to differences in terms of coverage and technologies of the different networks within the European Union. Moreover, the quality of services abroad does not depend on the home operator, which does not have any control on the performances of the network located in the visited Member State. We invite thus the European Commission to delete in art 5(2) and 9(3)(c) the reference to quality of service. In case the European intends to maintain the provision of the quality of service in article 5(2) we then suggest that the exception of “when technically feasible” remains; 2) the obligation on roaming providers to inform the customers through a welcome SMS of value-added services, including a hyperlink to the types of value-added services and on their numbers’ ranges is too burdensome and costly. Thus, only operators providing such services should be subject to that obligation. In any case, the information via hyperlink should not be free-of-charge; 3) the obligation to inform customers by SMS of alternative means of access to emergency services chosen by every single visited Member States, implies that roaming providers will be obliged to issue customised SMS for every Member State. This will generate more costs and reduce clarity concerning emergency access in the EU. The only reference to 112 Emergency call is preferable as the number has been already harmonised in almost every Member State. Finally, concerning the process review, the participation of stakeholders to the process should not be reduced to a simply filling of a questionnaire but should cover all the different steps of the review process. This is crucial considering that the potential amendments of the wholesale caps will affect substantially operators and their business.
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Meeting with Kamila Kloc (Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip)

11 Jan 2018 · Electronic Communication Code; 5G spectrum allocation in Italy

Meeting with Arianna Vannini (Cabinet of High Representative / Vice-President Federica Mogherini)

5 Jul 2016 · Company presentation

Meeting with Günther Oettinger (Commissioner)

14 Apr 2016 · telecom review

Meeting with Andrus Ansip (Vice-President) and

15 Feb 2016 · Broadband deployment, innovation and market consolidation/competition, forthcoming review of telecom rules

Meeting with Kamila Kloc (Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip)

25 Jan 2016 · Telecommunications markets: competition and investment

Meeting with Kamila Kloc (Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip)

28 Apr 2015 · Review of telecom regulation (access regulation), investment in broadband, DSM

Meeting with Linsey Mccallum (Cabinet of Commissioner Margrethe Vestager)

16 Mar 2015 · Discussion on EU Electronic Communication Policy

Meeting with Anna Herold (Digital Economy)

23 Jan 2015 · Telecom review

Meeting with Stig Joergen Gren (Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip)

4 Dec 2014 · Telecom, broadband