Hdo you remember those days when they tell you: “Fiber is coming”? Then you find yourself with torn up streets, piles of earth and open manholes… but the connection remains a mirage. That's exactly how it works in many cities in Campania, where the work to bring real FTTH fiber (up to the home) has disconcerted entire neighborhoods and left behind a trail of damage and inconvenience.
Excavations have multiplied in Naples, Salerno, Avellino and Caserta, with construction sites open on busy roads, sidewalks torn up and inconvenience for pedestrians and residents. There are those, however, who remain disconcerted: "Here is the little white box on the pole, it indicates that the fiber is there ... but it can't be activated". How frustrating it is to find yourself in front of a complete infrastructure and not even be able to connect.
Following the model of the North, where in Ivrea and Turin Italian politicians have already installed underground black nets, in Campania workers have dug, inserted pipes and installed street cabinets… but then it's as if someone has pulled the brakes: technicians complain about "lack of order", operators say that "the street number is not covered" and citizens are left to watch.
You can see the manhole full of fiber, the perfectly wired street cabinet, even the “little white box” on the pole. But if you connect to the provider’s website, your street is “not covered”: an absurd contradiction. For users it’s a lottery: sometimes number 45 is ready, 47 isn’t; and for 51 there is a green light, while 53 remains dark.
The reason for the chaos
The PNRR has allocated approximately 3,8 billion for ultra-broadband fiber (FTTH). But, even in Northern Italy, the implementation has stopped “a few centimeters from the finish line”: the cables are there but they don’t reach the home . In Campania, where the organizational machine has proceeded in fits and starts, the delays are piling up. Often it is the municipalities that block everything with permits, poorly managed construction sites or no monitoring. The result? Tested networks that are never activated, poorly updated databases, zero obligations for providers to respond to requests.
New digital divide: the invisible one
No longer between those who do not have the network and those who do, but between those who see it under their house and cannot use it. A double mockery: on the street you have fiber, in reality you remain isolated - without smart working, streaming, telemedicine, online lessons. In short: you live "covered" on paper but prisoner of the digital Third World in reality.
Now what?
There is only one way: test the activation and hope for a “yes”. Citizens must try, wait for answers from call centers, insist with providers. No one cross-references the data, no one verifies the actual functionality of the systems: for now it is only a war of bureaucracies, not of technology.
In Campania, the work for the real fiber to the home has turned into a kind of parallel reality: open construction sites, full wells and small road hubs... everything ready, everything there. And yet, the connection never arrives. Not today, not tomorrow. Maybe in 2027? .
All Rights Reserved Article published on 15 June 2025 - 15:24
The article talks about problems with installing fiber in Campania. It's strange that there are works but the connection doesn't arrive. I hope that the problems are solved as soon as possible for all citizens.
The article talks about problems with installing fiber in Campania. It's strange that there are works but the connection doesn't arrive. I hope that the problems are solved as soon as possible for all citizens.