TIM shuts down some frequencies to reduce consumption: in 2023 throughout Italy

TIM goes in the same direction as Iliad: will turn off some cell towers when traffic on the network is low. In fact, she’s already started doing it. The provision created to deal with high energy costs came out during the presentation of the financial results for the third quarter, when the operator briefly anticipated those present that he would resort to an intelligent measure, if applied correctly.

Now TIM confirms to colleagues of mondomobileweb.it that the experimentation has already started in two regions, with the prospect of switching off the partially or completely inactive antennas when traffic conditions allow it throughout 2023 throughout Italy, typically at night. To identify the time windows in which energy can be saved and the systems which can be switched off without consequences for customers, TIM uses a algorithm based on artificial intelligence.

TIM has introduced in two regions the shutdown of some mobile frequencies based on an automatic detection, carried out by artificial intelligence algorithms which recognizes low traffic volumes, mainly at night, in real time. In any case, even in this circumstance, TIM guarantees the mobile network service to its customers. The project, on an experimental basis, was launched in 2022 in the Marche and Umbria and is expected to progressively extend throughout the country during 2023 – a spokesman for the operator explained to colleagues.

The signal transmission systems, therefore the elements that keep the network up, need a lot of energy, so a measure of this kind, with the prices reached by electricity, was almost inevitable, hence the hypothesis that they could soon join also WindTre and Vodafone is not so remote.