Telecom Italia Mobile

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TIM (Telecom Italia Mobile)
Type	Subsidiary of Telecom Italia
Founded	1995 2005 owned by Telecom Italia
Headquarters	Torino, Italy
Key people	• Roberto Junior, presidente • Marco De Benedetti, amministratore delegato • Gianni Mion, vicepresidente
Industry	Mobile telecommunications
Products	i.TIM, TIM Turbo, FreeMove, i.Music store, GSM on the ship, Internet Mobile etc
Slogan	Vivere senza confini (official translation: Living without borders)
Website	www.tim.it

TIM (Telecom Italia Mobile) is Telecom Italia's mobile phone brand, and runs a GSM, EDGE, UMTS and HSDPA network in Italy and a GSM network with EDGE in Brazil. In Europe, TIM is part of the FreeMove alliance. TIM Peru was sold to América Móvil and rebranded Claro. TIM sold its share in the Venezuelan mobile operator Digitel TIM to Televenco, a company owned by the Cisneros Group, since then the company's name has been Digitel. The agreement was approved by the Venezuelan regulatory authority Conatel. TIM Hellas, the Greek operator owned by Telecom Italia and previously known as STET Hellas (Telestet), was sold in 2005 to Apax Partners and Texas Pacific Group, but is still using TIM's brand.

TIM is the default network for T-Mobile and Orange customers entering Italy as part of the FreeMove alliance.

[edit] Telecom Italia Mobile Group

• TIM (Italy) (TIM owns 100%) (31,500,000 subscribers)
• TIM Brazil (Brazil) (TIM owns 100%) (25,900,000 subscribers)

[edit] External links

• TIM's website (in English)
• TIM's website (in Italian)
• TIM Brasil's website (in Brazilian Portuguese)
• Telecom Italia' s website (in Italian)