Telecom Italia

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Telecom Italia SpA

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legal form Società per azioni
ISIN IT0003497168
founding 1994
Seat Milan , Italy (Headquarters in Rome )ItalyItaly 
management
  • Luigi Gubitosi, CEO
Number of employees 57.901
sales EUR 19.1 billion
Branch telecommunications
Website www.telecomitalia.com
As of December 31, 2018

The Telecom Italia SpA with registered office in Milan and administrative headquarters in Rome is a listed Italian telecommunications provider . It has been selling mobile , fixed line and broadband services ( ADSL , VDSL and FTTH ) under the brand name TIM since 2015 ; from 1995 to 2015 this brand name was an acronym for the independent subsidiary Telecom Italia Mobile , which exclusively offered mobile services. Business services are marketed under the brand name TIM Impresa Semplice .

There are 29.8 million mobile (market share of 30.8%) and 11.9 million fixed network connections (market share of 58.7%), which makes it one of the largest mobile and fixed network operators in Italy by number of customers. The company is in direct competition with Vodafone Italia , Wind Tre and Iliad Italia .

history

Telecom Italia headquarters in Milan
Telecom Italia's administrative headquarters in Rome

The company was created in 1994 through the merger of five companies ( SIP , IRITEL , Italcable , Telespazio , SIRM ) of the former state holding company IRI-STET . In the years that followed, there were sometimes drastic rationalizations , as a result of which the workforce was severely reduced several times. In October 1997, the Italian government began privatization , whereby a so-called “ golden share ” could be obtained for a certain period of time .

In November 1998, Franco Bernabè became 'Amministratore Delegato' of Telecom Italia. In February 1999, bidders submitted a takeover offer for Telecom Italia. Bernabè spoke out against the takeover offer and considered countermeasures (including a merger with Deutsche Telekom ). The acquisition began in May and Olivetti acquired 51% of Telecom Italia's shares. In June 1999, Bernabè resigned.

Telecom Italia brand logo

In 1999, Roberto Colaninno acquired a majority stake in Telecom Italia through a complex company nesting around Olivetti. Today around 50% of the shares are owned by Italian institutional investors (with Pirelli exercising control through direct and indirect holdings ), around 25% are in free float in Italy , and the remainder are mainly held by foreign investors . Telecom Italia operates the vast majority of the Italian telephone - fixed network (with Internet services ) and is about the brand name TIM (2015: Telecom Italia Mobile ), the most important mobile operators in Italy . The subsidiary Telecom Italia Media controls, among other things, the television stations La 7 and MTV Italia as well as the news agency Apcom . Telecom Italia is also active in the information technology sector through Olivetti (Olivetti merged with Telecom Italia in 2003; the traditional brand name is now used for the IT sector ). Internet services are offered under the Alice brand .

In 2001, the CSELT research laboratory was renamed TILAB (Telecom Italia Lab).

In September 2006, Telecom Italia employees were caught in a nationwide wiretapping scandal.

On April 13, 2011, the Supervisory Board appointed Franco Bernabè as 'Presidente Esecutivo' ( Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer ).

Telecom Italia was one of the main sponsors of the world exhibition EXPO 2015 in Milan and was responsible for the Internet supply. It covered the entire area through the use of 50 transmission systems with LTE, GSM and UMTS, and in cooperation with cisco it installed more than 1,800 WLAN access points, this network was freely accessible to every visitor to the EXPO, but had a speed limit of 5 Mbit / s. The backbone network of the EXPO formed a 300 km long fiber optic network and 2 server centers. During the entire EXPO, 1.1 petabytes of data were transferred.

In 2015 Telecom Italia changed its corporate strategy and from 2016 will only appear on the Italian market with the brand name TIM . As a result, Telecom Italia Mobile completely merged with Telecom Italia, which the holding company Telecom Italia Group founded for TIM Brasil .

Ownership structure

After the privatization, the capital was widely spread on the stock exchange. One of the two major shareholders, along with the state-owned Cassa Depositi e Prestiti, was Telco SpA with a 22% stake. This investment vehicle from Assicurazioni Generali , Intesa Sanpaolo , Mediobanca and Telefónica acquired the share package in 2007 for 4.1 billion euros. In 2010 a write-off of 1 billion had to be made, in 2012 another 901 million euros were written off. From June 2015 the French media group Vivendi built up a share of initially 15%, and increased it to 20% by the end of October 2015; In the same month it became known that the French telecommunications company Xavier Niel had also acquired 15% after he had expressed his interest in the Italian market; Niel retired from Telecom Italia in 2016 and later set up his own network in the Italian market with Iliad Italia . By March 2016 Vivendi had increased its stake in Telecom Italia to almost 24%. The US financial investor Elliot Management got involved in the spring of 2018 and currently holds just under 10% (as of June 2019).

Cellular network

Torre Telecom Italia in Rome
Torre Telecom Italia in Rozzano near Milan

Telecom Italia operates an Italy-wide cellular network based on GSM , UMTS and LTE . The network is primarily marketed under the Telecom Italia TIM brand, but is also rented from various cell phone providers , including Tiscali Mobile , Fastweb Mobile and CoopVoce . The mobile communications services are broadcast from more than 15,000 transmitter sites, including third-party masts (e.g. from broadcasting sites of the RAI broadcasting corporation or, in South Tyrol, those of the Südtirol RAS broadcasting company, Vodafone , Wind Tre broadcast masts and many more). As a supplier for transmission technology, Telecom Italia relies on Nokia in the north-east of Italy, on Ericsson in the north-west and Huawei in the south of the country.

GSM

The GSM network reaches 99.8% of the population. Frequency ranges at 900 MHz and 1800 MHz are used, which are gradually deactivated in order to create more bandwidth for LTE-1800. In the affected areas, GSM is only transmitted on 900 MHz and, in rare cases, on two remaining free GSM-1800 channels. The entire GSM network has been upgraded to EDGE since 2005 .

UMTS

The HSDPA network reaches 96% of the population, the faster HSPA + network around 80.4%. Frequency ranges around 900 MHz and 2100 MHz are available for UMTS. The UMTS network has been upgraded to HSDPA and achieves download speeds of up to 14 Mbit / s , download speeds of up to 42 Mbit / s are possible via HSPA + .

LTE

Telecom Italia owns the second largest LTE network in Italy with a coverage of approx. 95% of the population. The following four frequency bands are used for LTE:

  • Band 20 - 800 MHz carrier frequency with 10 MHz bandwidth, achieves a download speed of up to 75 Mbit / s,
  • Band 3 - 1800 MHz carrier frequency with 15 MHz bandwidth, achieves a download speed of up to 112 Mbit / s, since 2016 the GSM network broadcast on 1800 MHz has been switched off and the freed up frequencies are used for LTE B3 with 20 MHz bandwidth to increase 150 Mbit / s s in the download.
  • Band 7 - 2600 MHz carrier frequency with 15 MHz bandwidth, achieves a download speed of up to 112 Mbit / s.
  • Band 32 - 1500 MHz carrier frequency, only for carrier aggregation , achieves a download speed of up to 150 Mbit / s - has no upload

The expansion plan aims to cover 98% of the population with high-speed LTE wireless networks by 2018. On November 26th, 2015 Telecom Italia announced that it was the first operator in Italy to put LTE into operation with download speeds of up to 300 Mbit / s, using “Three Carrier Aggregation” to combine three different LTE frequency bands. On December 15th, it announced that it had put the new 4.5G standard into operation in Rome, Palermo and Sanremo . With the help of the L-band (band 32), aggregated with the bands 800 and 1800 and the use of 256 QAM, download speeds of up to 500 Mbit / s can be achieved. The first system with 500 Mbit / s was provisionally set up in Sanremo for the festival; at the beginning of 2017, further systems will be converted there to broadcast 1500 MHz LTE. The antenna in the picture has technology from Ericsson and a prototype antenna from Kathrein . The cell identifier of the system is 201309. In mid-2017 this speed was increased to 700 megabytes by the 4 carrier aggregation with additional band 7.

  • Telecom Italia cellular sites

  • First radio system in Italy with 500 Mbit / s in Sanremo

  • TIM base station with HSPA + (2100 MHz, antenna below) and LTE (800 MHz, antenna above) in Mals

landline

With the privatization of SIP, the entire network, including the last mile, was transferred to Telecom Italia. This offers ADSL with up to 20 Mbit / s, FTTC up to 200 Mbit / s download and 20 Mbit / s upload and FTTH up to 1000 Mbit / s download and 20 Mbit / s upload as well as telephone services. Telecom Italia also offers lines with more bandwidth for special customers (e.g. large schools). It also offers so-called normal packages, which can be expanded at a higher price. The normal package for ADSL2 + is 7 Mbit / s and can be expanded to 10 and 20. The normal package of FTTC is 20Mbit / s but can be increased up to 200 Mbit / s. FTTH with the FTTC conditions but expandable up to 1000 Mbit / s.

International activities

In 2003 Telecom Italia took over the Hamburg telephone and internet provider HanseNet and offered its internet services under the brand name Alice . In the middle of September 2006 Telecom Italia announced the planned takeover of the German AOL business for Internet access, which was completed in March 2007. On November 5, 2009, an agreement was signed to sell HanseNet / Alice for EUR 900 million to Telefónica Germany . The sale was completed in February 2010, including an examination by the responsible competition authorities and the necessary approvals. The operations in France under the name Alice were sold to Iliad in 2008 .

Since 1998 Telecom Italia has also been active on the Brazilian market under the name TIM Brasil .

See also

Web links

Commons : Telecom Italia  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ telecomitalia.com - Board of Directors
  2. ↑ a b telecomitalia.com. 2018 Annual Report. Telecom Italia SpA, December 31, 2018, accessed March 29, 2019 .
  3. ↑ a b Telecom Italia diventa TIM , "Telecom Italia becomes TIM" (December 21, 2016)
  4. ^ TIM Impresa Semplice
  5. ↑ Osservatorio sulle comunicazioni (June 30, 2016)
  6. ↑ 'Telecom Italia: A walk in the TILab laboratories garden', - ( Memento of the original from September 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.telecomitalia.com
  7. ↑ Independent State Center for Data Protection Schleswig-Holstein: wiretapping and surveillance scandal in Italy ( memento of the original from February 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.datenschutzzentrum.de
  8. ↑ Composizione del Consiglio di Amministrazione, April 26th 2011  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.telecomitalia.com  
  9. ↑ EXPO 2015 - Summary by TIM. ( Memento of the original from June 9, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.telecomitalia.com
  10. ↑ [1]
  11. ↑ Shareholdings
  12. ^ Telecom Italia Owners Agree on New Financing
  13. ↑ Vivendi further increases its stake in Telecom Italia
  14. ↑ Telecom Italia: Shareholdings , accessed on August 24, 2019 (English)
  15. ↑ List of Italian virtual mobile operators (December 21, 2016)
  16. ↑ http://www.silbernagl.biz/Mobilfunk/MobilfunkmarktItalien.php
  17. ↑ Mobile networks in South Tyrol (December 21, 2016)
  18. ↑ a b c network coverage of TIM (December 21, 2016)
  19. ↑ a b c Frequency bands used by TIM . ( frequencycheck.com ).
  20. ↑ a b 4.5G - Press release from Telecom Italia . ( telecomitalia.com ).
  21. ↑ Telecom Italia Strategic Plan (2016-2018)
  22. ↑ TIM LTE with 300 Mbit / s - press release from Telecom Italia
  23. ↑ https://docs.cellmapper.net/mw/index.php/222_1_1016_201309
  24. ↑ http://www.lettera43.it/economia/aziende/da-sip-a-telecom-la-storia-della-compagnia_43675108971.htm
  25. ↑ http://tim.it