Citing privacy and other concerns, AIIP, Italy’s Internet providers association, is calling for the competition regulator to intervene to improve peering agreements with Telecom Italia, Telecompaper reports. AIIP has suggested Telecom Italia's practice of “depeering” or reducing network access points, is "in perfect contrast to and contradiction with" the government's reassurances regarding the privacy of communications, the report states. AIIP believes Telecom Italia's decision “has resulted in the flow of data forcibly extending across national boundaries,” the report states, endangering “not only the privacy of data exchanged between Italian users but also the efficiency and modernisation of the entire Internet network in Italy.”
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