Telecom Italia Mobile

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Telecom Italia Mobile SpA

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legal form Società per azioni
founding 1995
resolution 2016
Reason for dissolution Merger with Telecom Italia
Seat Rome , ItalyItalyItaly 
Number of employees 12,000
sales EUR 11.78 billion (2003)
Branch telecommunications
As of December 31, 2015

The Telecom Italia Mobile ( acronym : TIM ) was an Italian mobile operator based in Rome . According to the number of customers, it was the largest mobile operator in Italy and also internationally active. As a subsidiary of Telecom Italia , it was merged with the parent company in 2016, which continues to operate the TIM brand .

history

In 1995 Telecom Italia spun off its mobile communications division and founded Telecom Italia Mobile (TIM) as an independent subsidiary to operate.

On November 27, 1995, TIM took over a 50 percent stake in the state-owned ENTEL Bolivia . ENTEL was to have a telephone monopoly for short and long-distance calls for six years. In 2001 the monopoly for ENTEL was lifted again. ENTEL Bolivia was nationalized again on May 1st, 2008 under the government of President Evo Morales .

On December 15, 1998, UGB Participações sold its stake in Telecom Italia .

On March 26, 1999, after approval by the cartel authority (Cade), the Brazilian Bitel was taken over by the UGB Participações and renamed TIM Brasil . Additional licenses for setting up the GSM 900 and DCS 1800 networks were acquired on January 30, 2001.

Telestet Hellas was taken over at the beginning of 2004 and renamed TIM Hellas on February 8, 2004 . Due to massive financial problems of Telecom Italia , TIM Hellas had to be sold on April 4, 2005 for 1114 million euros to the financial investors Apax Partners and the Texas Pacific Group .

TIM Peru was the third largest mobile operator in Peru in 2002 after Movistar and BellSouth. In 2005 Telecom Italia Mobile had to sell its subsidiary TIM Peru to América Móvil , which was then renamed Claro .

TIM has sold its shares in the Venezuelan mobile operator Digitel TIM to Televenco, a subsidiary of the Cisneros Group , which it now operates as Digitel . The sale has been approved by the Venezuelan regulator Conatel.

TIM was active on the market as a service provider until 2015 before it was finally merged with it again in January 2016 as part of the Telecom Italia brand transfer . Since then it has only acted as a brand name. Business services were marketed under the brand name TIM Impresa Semplice .

Corporate structure

  • Telecom Italia
    • Telecom Italia Mobile
      • TIM Brazil
      • TIM Hellas

There were also holdings in ENTEL Bolivia (50%) and Avea Türkiye (10%).

EXPO 2015

TIM was one of the main sponsors of the world exhibition EXPO 2015 in Milan and was responsible for the Internet supply. TIM covered the entire area through the use of 50 transmission systems with LTE, GSM and UMTS.In addition, TIM installed more than 1,800 WLAN access points in cooperation with cisco.This network was freely accessible for 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.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Telecom Italia Mobile SpA History. Fundingunivere, accessed January 20, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Telecom Italia: TIM Brasil
  3. ↑ Telecom Italia diventa TIM , "Telecom Italia becomes TIM" (December 21, 2016)
  4. ^ TIM Impresa Semplice
  5. ↑ EXPO 2015 - Summary by TIM (December 21, 2016)