Bloomberg Telecom Italia SpA, Italy’s former phone monopoly, is drawing up a new plan worth between 4 billion and $5.3 billion to speed up its fiber roll-out in the country, according to a document seen by Bloomberg. Telecom Italia earlier this month launched a new tender aimed at widening the company’s fiber-to-the-home coverage to about 10 million Italian households, according ...

Bloomberg Californians are facing the largest mass blackout so far this year as the state’s biggest utility, PG&E Corp., prepares power shutoffs to prevent live wires from falling into dry brush and igniting wildfires with ferocious winds expected to sweep across the region. PG&E is planning to cut power to 386,000 homes and businesses — an estimated 1.2 million people ...

Bloomberg China’s fast-growing $157 billion market for exchange-traded funds became directly accessible to overseas investors, at least four years since the plan was first hatched. Four so-called “feeder” ETFs began trading in Shenzhen and Hong Kong, the first batch in a project aimed at connecting the two markets. The Shenzhen funds track the Hang Seng China Enterprises Index and the ...