A Q&A guide to communications regulation and outsourcing law in Italy.

The Q&A gives a high level overview of communications law, including authorisation and licensing, universal service obligations, spectrum use, access and interconnection, data protection and security, price regulation, subscriber management, and outsourcing and telecommunications.

This Q&A discusses the situation in this jurisdiction as at the law stated date. It has not been updated to discuss the most recent developments, including the requirement of EU member states to implement the European Electronic Communications Code (EU) 2018/1972 by 21 December 2020.