Elon Musk’s Starlink has claimed Italy’s largest phone carrier is obstructing its high-speed internet rollout in the country, with possible repercussions for its services across southern Europe and north Africa.
Telecom Italia SpA has for months failed to comply with regulations requiring it to share spectrum data, Starlink said in a complaint to Italy’s communications watchdog and the Industry Ministry late last week, a document seen by Bloomberg showed. This information is necessary to avoid frequency interferences, and the lack of data has severely slowed deployment of the SpaceX satellite communications company’s new gateway equipment, it said.
A representative for ...
