In Italy, wifi is free

After months of promises, confirmations and denials, especially after five long years of endless waiting, the provisions introduced by the then interior minister, Beppe Pisanu, through which he had imposed an unnecessary and anachronistic requirement to identify, through card 'identity, how to connect to the internet in wifi in bars, restaurants and public houses have been repealed.

It took a few lines inserted in the CD Decree Milleproroghe to jump behind a standard that has been in the last five years, one of the many anomalies Italian and above all that has prevented the development and dissemination of public Internet connections, helping to increase the dramatic digital divide that plagues our country and relegates him to the role of bringing up the rear in every European ranking on the prevalence of broadband.


From January 1 it will be possible to enter a bar, order a coffee and browse through a newspaper on-line without requiring the operator to produce an identity document and, more importantly, without the latter having Aquisito maintain an impressive body of 'information concerning the use by its customers, resource connectivity.

Instead will remain the only requirement for operators of Internet point of requiring a special license for the activity. If you reached the normal state can be considered a goal, then, the Italy of the Net, the New Year's Eve, will have a reason to celebrate. Needless to regret that, probably, this result could - and perhaps should - be achieved for some time.

Although it does not want to wipe out the party atmosphere, however, should be wondering what happened to the insistent demands of anti terrorism, according to many national security pundits have, so far, made indispensable the provisions contained in Decree Pisanu. The terror alert and 'ceased of a sudden? Has' suddenly closed the theorem according to which the most dangerous criminals would be used to plan national and international on-line attacks and massacres, sipping coffee in the bar of our cities? inaccontentabili not to appear or to raise doubts that could lead to unwanted thoughts, but, of course, and 'curious that a few weeks have been enough to forget the concerns expressed, gravely, by the National Anti-Mafia Prosecutor Piero Grasso and to change his mind at the same Interior Minister Roberto Maroni, who just over a month ago ruled out the possibility of a radical and proposed to abolish the requirement for identification, instead of mitigating the rigor through the use of more practical solutions than production of paper identity.

The decision so far taken to retain those provisions of the Pisanu Decree, as well as the one just taken by repealing the assessments involve extremely serious in terms of national security, respect the privacy of citizens, and promoting innovation in the country. E'pertanto worrying having to register such a high level of volatility in the Palace.

E 'on the other hand, that it will take more to repeal the provision contained in Milleproroghe to remove the damages incurred in the last five years on the side of the habits of the Italians use of public resources for connectivity. For the manager of a bar French or German, and 'inconceivable in 2010, does not make available to its customers, and intenternet wifi for the customers use the service and' now, absolutely natural.

In Italy is not 'and so it' s useless to pretend that simply turn the page on the calendar because our culture and attitudes can change. Meanwhile - you can not forget - the telecom companies have used pervasively widespread consumption of mobile internet through "keys" and "smartphones" and, especially, have slowly convinced that connect, even in WiFi mode, has cost, often, however, quite salty.

Symptomatic of this concern consumer policy and 'the recent choice made by Telecom and Railways - just with the excuse of having to adapt to the Pisanu decree, to require travelers who use the wifi on trains to make a payment of a euro cent with your credit card. All too evident, even in this case, which we identify ourselves more than we want to get used to using a credit card for Internet connectivity.

The repeal of Decree Pisanu and 'good news but the battle against digital divide in our country, and' only just begun and the Government and 'now called the test more difficult to prove that the decision just made and' more than propoagandistica a move pre-election and is, rather, the result of a genuine conviction of the need to promote the spread of Internet in Italy.

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