MILAN, May 11 (Reuters) - Italy's biggest utility Enel has written to the Italian communications regulatorover a possible role in developing a national ultrafastbroadband network, a move that could put pressure on phone groupTelecom Italia.
Enel, which is controlled by the Italian government, wrote aletter to the regulator on April 14 saying its domestic networkcould be used to help roll out fiber optic cables more cheaply.
"Enel believes it can help develop a key infrastructure forthe future of the country," Enel's head of Italy Carlo Tamburisaid in the letter to AGCOM, which Reuters saw on Monday.
Enel said its contribution would be done "in a synergic waywith what the telecoms operators have done and planned" bringingclear benefits to industrial and low urbanised areas. (Writing by Stephen Jewkes and Danilo Masoni)
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