TIM is Telecom Italia

Telecom Italia

Telecom Italia is the largest Italian telecommunications company, also active in the media and manufacturing industries. Now a private concern listed on the Borsa Italiana, it was founded in 1994 by the merger of several state-owned telecommunications companies, the most important of which was...

's mobile phone

Mobile phone

A mobile phone is a device which can make and receive telephone calls over a radio link whilst moving around a wide geographic area. It does so by connecting to a cellular network provided by a mobile network operator...

 brand, and runs a GSM, EDGE

Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution

Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution is a digital mobile phone technology that allows improved data transmission rates as a backward-compatible extension of GSM...

, UMTS and HSDPA network in Italy and Brazil

Brazil

Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...

.
In Europe, TIM is part of the FreeMove

FreeMove

FreeMove is a mobile telecommunications alliance, designed to provide better service integration for its members' roaming customers. Formed in 2003, the alliance brings together Orange, Deutsche Telekom, Telecom Italia and TeliaSonera....

 alliance.
TIM Peru

Peru

Peru , officially the Republic of Peru , is a country in western South America. It is bordered on the north by Ecuador and Colombia, on the east by Brazil, on the southeast by Bolivia, on the south by Chile, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean....

 was sold to América Móvil

América Móvil

América Móvil is a Mexican telecommunication company headquartered in Mexico City, Mexico. It is the fourth largest mobile network operator in terms of equity subscribers, one of the largest corporations in Latin America, and the world. America Movil is a Fortune 500 company...

 and rebranded Claro

Claro (mobile phone network)

Claro is the largest mobile phone network in the Americas. It is part of the Mexican telecom group América Móvil which is one of the four largest mobile phone network operators in the world, with more than 200 million customers...

. 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

Digitel

-Business:*Corporación Digitel, C.A. d/b/a Digitel GSM, a wireless services operator in Venezuela*Digital Telecommunications Phils., Inc., a landline services operator in the Philippines...

. The agreement was approved by the Venezuelan regulatory authority Conatel.
TIM Hellas

Tim Hellas

WIND Hellas, formerly STET Hellas, is an integrated telecommunications provider headquartered in Athens, Greece. WIND is the 3rd largest mobile operator in Greece with more than 4.4 million active subscribers ....

, the Greek operator owned by Telecom Italia and previously known as STET Hellas (Telestet), was sold in 2005 to Apax Partners

Apax Partners

Apax Partners LLP is a global private equity and venture capital firm, headquartered in London. The company also operates out of eight other offices in New York, Hong Kong, Mumbai, Tel-Aviv, Madrid, Stockholm, Milan and Munich. The firm, including its various predecessors, have raised...

 and Texas Pacific Group

Texas Pacific Group

TPG Capital is one of the largest private equity investment firms globally, focused on leveraged buyout, growth capital and leveraged recapitalization investments in distressed companies and turnaround situations. TPG also manages investment funds specializing in growth capital, venture capital,...

. In 2007 the company was sold to Orascom Telecom and TIM Hellas

Tim Hellas

WIND Hellas, formerly STET Hellas, is an integrated telecommunications provider headquartered in Athens, Greece. WIND is the 3rd largest mobile operator in Greece with more than 4.4 million active subscribers ....

, Q-Telecom

Q-Telecom

Q-Telecom was the fourth mobile telephony provider in Greece. It began operation in June 2002.As of 2008, it called itself "Q" and called its services "MyQ."The company provided GSM phone service, supported by LMDS and backbone networks, and...

 and also Tellas (a fixed phone/ADSL provider whose 50%+1 share is owned by Orascom's Italian Wind

WIND (Italy)

Wind Telecomunicazioni SpA is an Italian telecom operator which offers integrated mobile, fixed and IPTV and Internet services and has also a sister network in Greece: WIND Hellas...

) renamed to Wind on 5 June 2007.

TIM is the default network for T-Mobile

T-Mobile

T-Mobile International AG is a German-based holding company for Deutsche Telekom AG's various mobile communications subsidiaries outside Germany. Based in Bonn, Germany, its subsidiaries operate GSM and UMTS-based cellular networks in Europe, the United States, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands...

 and Orange

Orange SA

Orange is the brand used by France Télécom for its mobile network operator and Internet service provider subsidiaries. It is the fifth largest telecom operator in the world, with 210 million customers . The brand was created in 1994 for Hutchison Telecom's UK mobile phone network, which was...

 customers entering Italy as part of the FreeMove alliance.

Telecom Italia Mobile Group

• TIM (Italy) (TIM owns 100%) (32,600,000 subscribers) at 30 June 2009
• TIM Brasil (Brazil
  Brazil
  Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...
  
  ) (TIM owns 100%) (37,800,000 subscribers) at 30 June 2009

External links

• TIM's website (in English)
• TIM's website (in Italian)
• TIM Brasil's website (in Portuguese)
• Telecom Italia' s website (in Italian)
• TIM Turkey (Avea-Aria) (Aria %40, Avea %10 Telecom Italia) website (in English)