The Italian government is trying to negotiate a deal between the phone group and Open Fiber<\/a>, jointly owned by state lender CDP and utility Enel, to merge fibre assets and create a single national champion.
But progress has been delayed as it seeks solutions to governance and regulation issues.
\"Under a regulatory and antitrust profile, a single network company that supplies wholesale access services to all operators cannot be in the hands of a single, vertically integrated majority shareholder, \" Stefano Buffagni told the daily La Repubblica.
He had been asked about TIM wanting to continue to be the majority shareholder of any future network.
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