Enel cable phone offer to homes

(ANSA) - Rome, May 28 - Enel electricity giant is in negotiation with Italian telephone operators over a plan to offer domestic telephone subscribers fibre-optic cables in their homes when they replace their old electricity counters, Enel managing director Francesco Starace said Thursday.
    "We are talking to all the telephone operators and they are rather interested, because it is a good idea," Starace told a shareholders' meeting.
    "Anyone interested can carry out the cabling of Italy in a short period, one would need three to four or five years, these are extraordinary speeds".
    Cabling can be done "at the same time as changing the counter," meaning that one can "carry out the cabling with extremely competitive levels of savings that are convenient for everyone - this is an opportunity we are offering the telephone companies".
    Enel has for some time worked with telephone operators including Telecom to introduce optical fibre cables but now "we have extended this project to the home".