Present Status and Expected Development of the Italian Telecommunication Network

The problems set by the development of the Italian telephone network and particularly by the scheduled introduction of new services (also of a nontelephone type) are surveyed in this paper. The solution of these problems employing analog techniques presents many difficulties and, also, creates obstacles for future developments; therefore Italy is at present oriented towards the extensive use of digital techniques. In this paper the scheduled developmental stages are described for the evolution of the present telephone network, which is founded on an analog basis, towards a telecommunication network set on a digital basis and with an accentuated integration of services.