TIM Brasil

TIM Participações S.A.

Type	S.A. (corporation)
Traded as	BM&F Bovespa
Industry	Telecommunications
Founded	1995
Headquarters	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Key people	Manoel Horácio Francisco da Silva, (Chairman) Rodrigo Modesto de Abreu (CEO)
Products	Fixed line, Mobile phone, GSM, Internet Mobile
Number of employees	12841
Parent	Telecom Italia Mobile, Telecom Italia
Website	www.tim.com.br www.timparti.com.br

TIM Participações or TIM Brasil is the Brazilian subsidiary of Telecom Italia Mobile an Italian telecommunications company, which owned 67% of the company as of 2014. TIM Participações started its activities in Brazil in 1998 and since 2002 has consolidated its national presence, becoming the first mobile phone company present in all Brazilian States and have more than 70.9 million customers.

The Company, through the GSM technology, has a national reach of approximately 93% of urban population and offers services to mobile and fixed telephony, data transmission and Internet access at high speed, bringing the convergence of services for all its customers in a single company.

TIM Participações is headquartered in Rio de Janeiro and its listed in BM&F Bovespa and NYSE, in São Paulo and New York City exchanges respectively.

On May 5, 2012 TIM's chairman Luca Luciani resigned from all of his duties at TIM either in Brazil or Italy. There were charges concerning scams about the activation of SIM cards for deceased and non-existing persons.

TIM LIVE is a broadband internet service provided in some locations from São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, which uses the VDSL2 technology, currently in two speeds: 35 Mbit/s down (20 Mbit/s up) and 50 Mbit/s down (30 Mbit/s up).

TIM has announced investments up to R$ 100 million/year, within the R$ 3 billion available from the group investment plan. The acquisition from the AES Atimus network in the amount of R$ 1.5 billion allowed a great deal of this operation to be possible. The company is still studying the possibility of expanding this service to other cities.