Draft:Vianova

Vianova S.p.A. (formerly Welcome Italia S.p.A.) is an Italian joint-stock company, founded in 1998, specialized in offering integrated telecommunications and cloud computing services whose suite of services is aimed at businesses, VAT numbers and professionals, to multinational companies.

History
Welcome Italia S.p.A. was founded by brothers Stefano and Giovanni Luisotti in 1998 and the following year, in 1999, it obtained the license to become a national telephone operator.

In 2006, it acquired a 67% share of Vola S.p.A., a Viareggio company that offers mass SMS sending services.

On April 22, 2016, the company announced the acquisition of 51% of Colt Engine S.r.l., operator of hosting and Internet domain registration services, which has now become Host S.p.A. In the same year, it also acquired 40% of NetResults S.r.l. which offers VoIP, MoIP, Unified Communication and Collaboration and IoT solutions.

In June 2016, it announced the opening of a second data center in Montacchiello in addition to the one in Massarosa. The two data centers are linked by a fiber-optic ring. In July 2016, Welcome Italia signed an agreement with TIM for the launch of a Mobile Virtual Network Operator on its network with the aim of using only the transmission network of the former monopolist. The mobile offer launched by Welcome Italia is called Vianova Mobile, consistently with the fixed offer called Vianova.

On 21 September 2016, Welcome Italia acquired 51% of QboxMail S.r.l., a Prato-based company specialized in offering professional cloud email services.

From 31 March 2021 the operator changed its company name to Vianova S.p.A.