Tag: Italy

Poste Italiane plans cellphone service

Posted by | Mar 26, 2007 | |

Poste Italiane said Monday that it would begin selling mobile phone services by the end of the year as it aims for a slice of one of the world’s most lucrative, yet saturated, markets.

Poste Italiane, which plans to sell the services in partnership with one of the country’s four existing cellphone operators, will pay a fee to use their infrastructure as it sets up what is known as a mobile virtual network operator. The company aims to have two million clients five years after the service has been introduced, the Poste chief executive, Massimo Sarmi, said at a presentation. He declined to say which of the existing Italian operators he expected to sign the accord.

To grab new clients, Poste plans to leverage its 14,000 branches, which reach into every corner of Italy, Sarmi said. About 1.5 million people enter an Italian post office every day, and the company has a successful banking business with 20 million clients – holders of bank accounts, credit cards or prepaid cards that could be directly linked to pay for cellphone services.

Virtual operators have existed in the United States and Europe for several years, including Virgin Mobile in Britain, Yoigo in Spain and Beyond Mobile in the United States. But most have failed to make a significant impact on the market. The two exceptions are Denmark and Germany, where virtual operators like Debitel have carved out more than 20 percent of the market, according to a Poste Italiane document.

Poste Italiane also said Monday that 2006 net income almost doubled to EUR676 million, or USD900 million, from EUR349 million, while sales rose EUR600 million, or 3.5 percent, to EUR17.1 billion.

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Global-Z releases Italian address-correction data-processing service

Posted by | Mar 21, 2007 | |

Global-Z International, a bureau specializing in the data processing of international mailing addresses for global direct marketers, has enhanced its Italy data-processing service — including the most current Italian postal codes — after the Italian postal authority, Poste Italiane, changed its postal code system.

Bennington, VT-based Global-Z said its Italy data-processing service is designed to help mailers update their Italian address files.

As many global postal authorities have done, Poste Italiane is enhancing its old postal-code system in pursuit of efficiency improvements. With this enhancement, which will continue through the year, the old Italy postal codes will not be available on Poste Italiane’s legacy processing and necessitate the manual processing of this mail. This postal-code update will benefit mailers using Poste Italiane with greater precision and speed delivering mail with updated postal codes.

Global-Z said that with the new postal-code system in place, mail with old, wrong or insufficient addresses would be processed as mail that has a non-existent address. As a result, the updated postal codes help assure delivery. This update includes Italian regions, provinces, municipalities and 8,500 neighborhoods, including all the streets of the 27 largest towns.

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Mistral Air expands fleet

Posted by | Mar 9, 2007 | |

Italian state-owned postal services company Poste Italiane’s airline Mistral Air will expand its fleet with three new Boeing 737-300 Quick Change aircraft and plans to start transporting passengers on charter flights.
The new aircraft are equipped to allow a quick change from cargo to passenger transport configuration, thanks to a system of rails. In 40 minutes, the fuselage’s cargo containers can be removed and replaced by passenger seats.
Thanks to the Quick Change system, Mistral Air can double its flight capacity, by exploiting the night time to transport cargo and the daytime and weekends to transport passengers on charter flights.
The Boeing 737-300 can transport up to 145 passengers to destinations such as Spain, the Canary Islands, Greece, Egypt, Tunisia and Morocco. The hubs of Mistral Air’s fleet will be based at Milan Malpensa, Rome Fiumicino and Palermo airports.
Mistral Air’s industrial plan targets for the next five years a total revenue of 200 mln euro (USD261.8 mln), with an increase by 150 mln euro (USD196.4 mln) from the current revenue.
The immediate target of the airline is to transport 210,000 passengers in 2007 and to achieve a total passenger traffic of 1.0 million in the next four years.

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Poste Italiane – Best Corporate IP Network of the Year

Posted by | Mar 7, 2007 | |

The project is part of a transition project Poste Italiane is currently involved with. They are changing the services from the standard core business to a new entity – one that is able to secure revenue from financial services as well as merchandise.

As one of the oldest consolidated services in the world Poste recognise that to keep pace with customers ever more sophisticated needs, Post Offices must supply advanced services covering financial, merchandise and email. At the same time they expect to be more efficient and productive.

The ICT Plus project resulted from Poste making a decision to provide connectivity services from three main sites in Rome, Milan and Bari to 14000 branches. Traffic is now aggregated on 5 POP interconnected by FO trunks. These POS host the data-centre.

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