The Ultra-Broadband Infrastructures and Services Research Program of the Italian Authority for Guarantees in Communications

In 2008 the Italian regulator for electronic communications (Authority for Guarantees in Communications, AGCOM) launched the Ultra-Broadband Infrastructures and Services (ISBUL) Research Program, managed by its Directorate of Studies, Research and Education in collaboration with the Polytechnic of Milan, University Bocconi, four universities in Rome (LUISS, Roma Tre, La Sapienza, Tor Vergata), the University of Naples Federico II, the University of Siena, the Polytechnic of Turin, and Imperial College London. The objective of the ISBUL Research Program was to pave the way for AGCOM to become a permanent presidium on various technological, juridical, and economic aspects of the Ultra Broadband Next Generation Access Network (UBB – NGAN) infrastructures.