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. In 2007 the company was sold to Orascom Telecom and TIM Hellas, Q-Telecom and also Tellas (a fixed phone/ADSL provider whose 50%+1 share is owned by Orascom's Italian Wind) renamed to Wind on 5th of June 2007. Telecom Italia is formerly a partially state-owned Italian telco. ... Year 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full 1995 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... This is about the Italian city of Milan. ... Cell Phone redirects here. ... Telecommunication involves the transmission of signals over a distance for the purpose of communication. ... FreeMove is an alliance of several European mobile telecommunications operators, designed to provide better service integration for its members roaming customers. ... Look up slogan in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... A website (alternatively, Web site or web site) is a collection of Web pages, images, videos or other digital assets that is hosted on one or several Web server(s), usually accessible via the Internet, cell phone or a LAN. A Web page is a document, typically written in HTML... Telecom Italia is formerly a partially state-owned Italian telco. ... Global System for Mobile communications (GSM: originally from Groupe Spécial Mobile) is the most popular standard for mobile phones in the world. ... Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution (EDGE) or Enhanced GPRS (EGPRS), is a digital mobile phone technology that allows it to increase data transmission rate and improve data transmission reliability. ... Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) is one of the third-generation (3G) mobile phone technologies. ... High-Speed Downlink Packet Access or HSDPA is a mobile telephony protocol. ... FreeMove is an alliance of several European mobile telecommunications operators, designed to provide better service integration for its members roaming customers. ... América Móvil (NYSE: AMX, BMV: AMX, NASDAQ: AMOV) is the largest mobile network operator in Germano America and Latin America and the largest corporation in Latin America. ... Claro is a mobile phone network in Brazil, Peru, Chile, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic. ... Digitel is the 3rd largest mobile phone operator in Venezuela, the company has pioneered GSM technology in that country. ... Please wikify (format) this article or section as suggested in the Guide to layout and the Manual of Style. ... Apax Partners is a private equity and venture capital firm based in the United Kingdom which operates in Hong Kong, China, India, United Kingdom, United States, Europe, and Israel. ... The Texas Pacific Group (commonly referred as TPG) is a private equity investment firm founded by David Bonderman, James Coulter and William Price in 1993. ... Orascom Telecom is the first Multinational Egyptian Corporation. ... Please wikify (format) this article or section as suggested in the Guide to layout and the Manual of Style. ... Q-telecom (mobile network code: 202-09) is the fourth player in mobile telephony in Greece. ... Orascom Telecom is the first Multinational Egyptian Corporation. ... Wind or Wind Telecomunicazioni SpA was established in 1997 and is an Italian telecom operator which offers integrated fixed, mobile and Internet services. ... WIND Hellas is a mobile telecommunications company with its headquarters located on Kifisias Avenue, in the northern Athens suburb of Marousi. ...

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Telecom Italia Mobile Group

• TIM (Italy) (TIM owns 100%) (35,300,000 subscribers)at 30 September 2007
• TIM Brazil (Brazil) (TIM owns 100%) (295,200,000 subscribers)at 30 September 2007

External links

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

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