Gilat Satellite Networks, a player in satellite networking technology, has announced that the company has enabled TIM Brasil, a Tier-1 Mobile Network Operator (MNO), to be the first MNO to provide mobile coverage to all 5,570 cities in Brazil. TIM Brasil’s coverage of 12 million hectares for the agrobusiness is largely possible due to Gilat’s […]

Italian telco TIM has confirmed that Arnaud De Puyfontaine, CEO of Vivendi, has resigned from his office of member of the Board of Directors of the company with immediate effect. De Puyfontaine said that, in this phase of constructive dialogue between TIM’s main shareholders and the Institutions, under the new Government’s leadership, it is fundamental […]

Italian telco TIM is moving forward with the deployment of new generation networks and services in Italy, and is taking high-performance FTTH fibre connections of up to 10 gigabits per second to homes thanks to XGS-PON technology (10 Gigabit capable Symmetric Passive Optical Network). TIM says it is already bringing this technology to 4.2 million […]

Italian multiplay telco TIM has confirmed that the Group has reached an agreement with streaming service DAZN which allows the latter to distribute Serie A TIM football rights through any third parties. It says the deal will improve the options available to TIM customers, who will continue to watch matches through TimVision, which it describes […]

TIM, the Italian telco, is testing multicast signal distribution over satellite to offer its customers high quality, live streaming – even in the country’s most remote areas. The testing, delivered through the TimVision Box in Adaptative Bit Rate (ABR) multicast mode, was developed in collaboration with Eutelsat, which owns and operates the Eutelsat Konnect satellite […]

Further to an earlier announcement, CDP Equity (CDPE), a company wholly owned by Cassa Depositi e Prestiti (CDP), Teemco Bidco S.à.r.l., a Luxembourg company controlled by one or more funds managed by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. L.P. (KKR), Macquarie Asset Management (Macquarie), Open Fiber and TIM have entered into a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding […]

In a move designed to speed up digitalisation of Italy, dominant telco TIM, FiberCop and Open Fiber have signed a commercial agreement that allows for the reuse of the network infrastructures in what are termed the ‘white areas’, where the development of a TLC infrastructure under concession has been financed by public funding. The agreement […]

Telecom Italia (TIM) is starting formal talks with the KKR fund on its €10.8 billion offer. KKR made an initial approach for TIM in November 2021. TIM has now said that it would start talks with KKR while simultaneously exploring its alternative of possible merger with state-backed broadband operator Open Fiber. TIM carries €29 billion […]