Say Fastweb to anyone and it is synonymous with early video experiments in 2000, one of the IPTV pioneers, which began life putting 2 million Italian homes online, by simple throwing fiber into holes being dug to improve the electricity grid in Italy. Today it is re-iterating a similar plan, this time to take it to 13 million homes from the 7.5 million that it has passes so far, again using fiber and promising broadband speeds of up to 200 Mbps to 50% of Italy, targeting 500 cities, and avoiding a head on confrontation with Telecom Italia, by focusing on medium and small municipalities, far from large Italian urban centers. It still offers some video, but the image of Fastweb…