Since its founding in 1999, Assoprovider has fought against unfair competition in the telecommunications sector with the aim of improve citizens' access to Internet services. Many battles have been won, and many more will be faced by the association this year and in the years to come, such as those exemplified by these programmatic points.

1. Use and management of collective assets

In its program, Assoprovider is committed to:

• Bring transparency and eliminate episodes of discrimination in the allocation of licensed P2P frequencies
• Remove every restriction on the use of licensed frequencies, both for delivering Internet access and for building backhauling
• Expand in the PNFR the number of unlicensed frequencies available
• Report the episodes of discrimination against SMEs in the 5G and shared spectrum competition.
• Monitor the proper functioning of SINFI, the infrastructure information system, aimed at encouraging infrastructure investments in telecommunications.
• Bring transparency within the frequency registry, to prevent discrimination against SMEs.
• Help all municipalities to correctly understand the rules governing the use of collective goods for communication infrastructures.
• Affirm a Open Fiber wholesale model including civil support infrastructures, not only for fiber. Ensuring all operators, at the same time, the use of the dark fiber portion.
• Make mandatory service conferences, inviting all trade associations, which will then have the task of forwarding the invitation to their members to participate.

2. Collective use and economic support

In its program, Assoprovider is committed to:

• Monitor that in the tenders for the ultra-broadband implementation there are no discriminatory constraints for SMEs.
• To oblige  those who engage in wholesale of goods, created with collective economic contributions, to apply the same conditions of non-discrimination and transparency also to all products connected and created outside of public funding (theprevent the use of non-funded products to surreptitiously introduce discriminatory measures).
• To have approved new bidding criteria that are not tied to the size of the participant and ensure that all SMEs have equal access to public funding for infrastructure (eliminate multilevel subcontracting at its root).
• Eliminate any economic/technical obstacles imposed by AGID/CONSIP for the provision of Internet services to local Public Administrations, as in the case of SPC services on connectivity different from that of the operators selected in the tender.
• Intervene on the Communications Code to clearly define the rules of use of multi-service condominium networks by TLC Operators in order to avoid duplication of internal infrastructures in buildings and the consequent economic damage to condominium owners who have invested in multi-service cabling. Introduction in Legislative Decree 259/2003 Communication Code, of the figure "Condominium Operator" based on the French model.

3. Anti-competitive discrimination

In its program, Assoprovider is committed to:

• Operate for the neutrality of both transport in relation to content and vice versa, and therefore prevent SKY and anyone else from being able to operate the discrimination in transport by content (joint statement AIIP).
• Obtaining theobligation of properly sized peering  in the various NAPs  regional for each operator that in the region has more than 10% of the total regional users or that has more than 10% of the traffic on a regional basis (The distribution of CDNs must not result in indirect discrimination against local operators).
• Regulate internet traffic to foreign countries, prohibiting it from occurring when it involves communications where both the sender and the recipient are Italian and both have access connections provided by Italian operators.
• Prevent transport operators from using infrastructure on Italian soil and that do not engage in peering at NAPs. (e.g., Sparkle not allowing peering in  Italy with African operators despite such traffic crossing Italian soil)
• Minimize the involvement of operators in crime repression to the essential minimum and impose  a fair remuneration for operators implementing the blockings and any other judicial measure in order to avoid consequent market distortions to the detriment of smaller operators.
  

  4. Technology and Innovation

In its program, Assoprovider is committed to:

• Promote the dissemination of a zero backdoor approach that is, to promote the use of FPGA technology in order to have control over every level of the ISO/OSI STACK and thus allow the use of devices without manufacturer-imposed firmware.
• Promote thedigital processing of radio signals SDR  (Software Define Radio) FPGA based  and therefore promote the definition of OPEN radio transmission protocols
• Encourage the SDN routing and switching dissemination (FPGA based).