Italy is in advanced talks with Elon Musk's SpaceX over a 1.5 billion euro deal for the company to provide secure telecommunications to the government, Bloomberg News reported on Sunday.
according to the report, discussions are ongoing and a final agreement on the five-year contract has not been reached, but the project has already been approved by Italy's Intelligence Services and Defence Ministry. It added that the deal involves SpaceX supplying Italy with a full range of encryption for telephone and Internet services used by the government.