Telecommunications company Swisscom AG (SCMN.VX) Thursday said it will invest 400 million Euros by 2016 to expand the broadband infrastructure of its Italian subsidiary Fastweb.

MAIN FACTS:

- Fastweb will continue to invest in fibre-optic expansion in Italy over the coming years in order to expand its own infrastructure and increase competitiveness.

- Fastweb is focusing on rolling out fibre-to-the-street (FTTS) to complement its existing fibre to the home (FTTH) network.

- Fastweb's modern fibreoptic network has already rolled out fibre to-the-home to around two million households in Italy's urban areas.

- Fastweb plans to invest some EUR 130 million in FTTS expansion by the end of 2013 and thus significantly expand its own fibre-optic infrastructure.

- In total around EUR400 million will be invested by 2016 in the further expansion of Italy's FTTS infrastructure in order to provide faster broadband to around 20% of Italy's homes.

- Swisscom's board of directors support Fastweb's plans and Thursday approved the funds required for the first stage of expansion.

- The additional investments will not affect Swisscom's dividend payout policy or the CHF 2.2 billion of investment scheduled for this year, the company said.

-Zurich Bureau, Dow Jones Newswires, +41 43 443 80 47; zurichdjnews@dowjones.com

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