Assoporti signs a protocol in order to favor integration of the nets wi-fi of the ports with the national net WiFi.Italia.it



Today to Brussels, in occasion of the signature with the director of the DG Connect Roberto Viola of administrative arrangement for the collaboration between WiFi.Italia.it and the European project WiFi4EU to the presence of the European commissioner to the Digital Economy Mariya Gabriel, the State undersecretary of the ministry of the Economic Development with delegation to the Telecommunications, Antonello Giacomelli, has announced that WiFi.Italia.it, project that has the objective to afford to Italian and foreign citizens and tourists free of charge to connect and in simple way to a free and diffused net wi-fi on all the Italian territory, has undersigned two protocols with the president of the Association of the Italian Ports (Assoporti), Zeno D' Augustin, and with president of Property Managers Italy (PM Italia), Stefano Bettanin.

"They are particularly proud - it has emphasized the undersecretary - of the signature of the agreement between WiFi4EU and Wi.fi.Italia.it in the belief that the Italian experience can constitute a best practice in Europe. We are first between the European Countries - Giacomelli has remembered - to have started from July the construction of national a federate net with the launch of a App that already now allows with citizens and tourists, Italians and aliens, to connect themselves free of charge and to have use of contained and services of the ecosystem tourism".

Specifying that "WiFi.Italia.it has been born own to increase to the tourist offer through not only a free net wi-fi but also the services that in future through the App could be offered: from the purchase of a ticket for a museum to the enogastronomic routes of a determined territory", Giacomelli has evidenced that "the protocols signed today with Property Managers Italy and Assoporti will allow to offer to an important business card of Italy and the single territorial truths to the tourists who will visit our Country".

"We have picked with favor the initiative of Mise relatively to WiFi.Italia.it", president of Assoporti Zeno D' Augustin has explained. "Signing the agreement - it has added - the Italian ports will forward make an ulterior step in the field of the innovation, putting on the connection wi-fi in the withins of they competence".

With the Assoporti protocols, the association that represents 54 Italian ports between which they figure the greater administered marine ports of call from the Authorities of Harbour System, and PUBLIC PROSECUTOR Italia, the association that represents the entrepreneurs of the residential hospitality, is engaged to favor integration of their present nets wi-fi in the ports and in the receptive structures with the national net WiFi.Italia.it, the project of the government promoted from Put, Mibact and AgID that free of charge supply through a App to tourists and citizens an only modality of access to the automatic and valid net forever without having to repeat the recording or to type scomode password to every access. In particular, the spread of interoperabili ecosystems wireless in a position to accompanying the user in own travel towards goals of tourist and cultural interest is previewed in the protocols, besides the collaboration for the study of services and on projects kinsmen for the potenziamento of physical and technological infrastructures.