TIM

TIM (Telecom Italia Mobile) is Telecom Italia's mobile phone brand. It runs GSM, EDGE, UMTS and HSDPA networks in Italy and Brazil. In Europe, TIM is part of the FreeMove alliance and is in that sense the default network for T-Mobile and Orange customers entering Italy. The company used to own networks in Peru, which it sold to América Móvil (now Claro). Likewise, 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.