The Telecom Italia Group is an Italian enterprise with a telecommunications pedigree stretching back over a century. One of Europe’s industry leaders, Group companies include many top Information and Communication Technology firms.
The Telecom Italia Group spans the entire advanced communications services chain - fixed and mobile telephony, the internet, media and innovative business solutions and systems - through TIM, Telecom Italia Media and Olivetti.
Thanks to one of the most extensive and advanced networks, Telecom Italia is helping to drive fixed and mobile broadband take-up both in Italy and in Europe, Turkey and Brazil. The Group promotes research and innovation through the laboratories of Telecom Italia Lab, which develop technologies that improve and enhance the competitiveness of the services the Group provides.
The Telecom Italia Group is ICT leader in Italy and a major player on the world stage. The Group's solid financial footing has helped to make it Europe's a leading position in terms of profitability and, most significantly, competitiveness, in strategic sectors ranging from fixed-line and mobile telecommunications to the Internet and Media, and in high growth markets such as data services and broadband. The Group is driven by innovation, professionalism, high standards of service and a customer focus.
The Group is leveraging its domestic leadership in an ongoing rollout of innovative services, particularly value added services, while at the same time exporting its know-how to markets outside Italy. Broadband coverage is soon to be extended to a selection of European cities with high growth potential, starting in France and Germany, where the company is already operating on the connectivity and broadband telephony services markets.
The economic results for 2004 showed Telecom Italia closing the year with revenues of 28.5 billion euros ( 7.1 billion euros at 31 March 2005 ) and with EBITDA of 12.9 billion (3.3 billion euros at 31 March 2005). In Italy the Group supplies about 26 million fixed-network lines and 26.2 million wireless lines (31 March 2005).
Telecom Italia's international presence covers the fixed-line and mobile telephony markets. Mobile operations are concentrated in Europe, in Turkey, and, most importantly, in Brazil, where TIM has launched the first pan-South American GSM network. In Europe, Telecom Italia has built a fibre optic backbone of 39,500 fiber kilometres.
Telecom Italia has rolled out a range of innovative offerings on its domestic Italian fixed-line market that has proved to be very popular with customers. The company's extensive, leading-edge network offers a technologically advanced infrastructure for the deployment of the most advanced transmission technologies, ranging from fibre optics to xDSL systems.
As Italy's number one fixed-line network, voice, data and Web services company, Wireline is ramping up growth in innovative market areas, such as value added services, data transmission, videocommunication, broadband and the Web, as well as pursuing growth on the international broadband services market.
As the primary driver of broadband take-up in Italy, Wireline is now bringing broadband to every town in Italy, and is helping to bridge the so-called digital divide; beyond Italy’s borders, it is pursuing growth in France and Germany, and has become the fastest-growing operator on the continent.
At the end of April 2005 the company supplied over 5 million broadband accesses, of which 568,000 in other European markets; the new flat rate offers and the new Tutto 4* and Chat SMS options apply 7,8 million lines (December 2004). Videocommunication and the latest Aladino range of innovative handsets, designed to support these new services, are helping to drive take-up of these offers “Tutto 4”* and Chat SMS ( with flat offers reached 7.8 million at December, and Alice range for all questions.
TIM, the Telecom Italia Group's most internationally dynamic company, operates Europe’s single largest GSM network in terms of line numbers. Inclusive of its worldwide subsidiaries, TIM supplies a total of 42.1 million lines (March 2005).