FiberCop, a leading company in the management of fixed-line and fibre optic network infrastructure, has signed a cooperation agreement with the Organising Committee of the winter sporting event, which returns to Italy after twenty years.

The 2026 Milano Cortina Foundation and FiberCop announce the start of a strategic partnership ahead of the upcoming Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games. The partnership is rooted in the shared universal values of sport and draws on the technological excellence of a company at the forefront of innovation, with FiberCop officially assuming the role of Fiber Infrastructure Partner of the event.

The agreement formalises FiberCop’s commitment to supporting an event of global significance, while promoting its founding principles. At the same time, the partnership is a crucial opportunity to enhance domestic infrastructure and the areas involved in the event.

FiberCop, which manages the country’s most extensive fixed and fibre optic network – with around 27 million kilometres of fiber laid and more than 6,000 municipalities already connected with ultrabroadband – will provide telecom operators with a modern and reliable infrastructure, ideally suited to supporting the development of innovative digital solutions across the country.

This sponsorship marks a key milestone in FiberCop’s growth whose goal remains to guarantee high-performance connectivity, making an active contribution to digital inclusion, sustainability and the economic development of the country. The partnership with Milano Cortina 2026 confirms FiberCop’s standing and its established expertise in cutting-edge digital networks.

Andrea Varnier, Chief Executive Officer of Milano Cortina 2026, said: “Having aboard a partner like FiberCop is of fundamental strategic importance. The Games require a highly complex connectivity network: we must guarantee speed, quality and continuity, not only for the internal and logistical operations of the event, but also for the images that will be broadcast worldwide and will forever remain part of the history of sport as well as of Italy. For Milano Cortina 2026, an edition with venues spread between city and mountains, cooperation with a leading company in fixed network management is essential during the Games and beyond Milano Cortina 2026”.

Massimo Sarmi, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of FiberCop, commented: “Our partnership with the 2026 Milano Cortina Foundation is a great source of pride for FiberCop. The Games will be a showcase for Italy and an opportunity to demonstrate how modern, extensive digital infrastructure can enable complex, global events while leaving a lasting legacy for the country. FiberCop was established to be one of the key players in Italy’s digital transformation, and being part of the group of sponsors for this event confirms our determination to attend wherever the present and future of Italy are being built”.

FONDAZIONE MILANO CORTINA 2026
The aim of Fondazione Milano Cortina 2026, in agreement with the International Olympic Committee (IOC), the International Paralympic Committee (IPC), the Italian National Olympic Committee (CONI), the Italian Paralympic Committee (CIP), the Cities of Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo, the regional governments of Veneto and Lombardy and the autonomous provinces of Trento and Bolzano, is to plan, organise, finance and deliver the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026. Established on 9 December 2019, Fondazione Milano Cortina 2026 is led by President Giovanni Malagò and CEO Andrea Varnier.

FIBERCOP
FiberCop manages Italy’s most advanced, extensive and far-reaching digital network infrastructure. It has approximately 27 million kilometres of fibre optic cable already laid, 10,500 exchanges, over 160,000 street cabinets and more than 114.3 million kilometres of copper network. This infrastructure is supported by over 18,300 professionals across Italy, who are committed to building the network of the future in line with the goal of the European Digital Agenda to provide 1 Giga connectivity for the entire population by 2030. The shareholders of FiberCop are the US fund KKR Infrastructure, the Canadian pension fund CPP Investments, the Abu Dhabi fund ADIA, the Italian Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF) and the Italian infrastructure fund F2i.