TIM Brasil Serviços e Participações S.A.
TypePublic S.A.
B3: TIMP3
NYSE: TIMB (ADS)
IndustryTelecommunications
FoundedJune 25, 1998 (1998-06-25)
FounderTelecom Italia
Headquarters
Rio de Janeiro
,
Brazil
Area served
Brazil
Key people
Manoel Horácio Francisco da Silva (Chairman)
Rodrigo Modesto de Abreu (CEO)[1]
ProductsMobile telephony, fixed telephony
Owner
Number of employees
9,519[2] (2017)
ParentTelecom Italia
Subsidiaries
  • TIM Participações S.A. (66.58%)
    • TIM Celular S.A. (100%)
    • TIM S.A. (99.99%)
Websitewww.tim.com.br

TIM Brasil Serviços e Participações S.A., commonly known as TIM Brasil, is a Brazilian telecommunications company, subsidiary of Telecom Italia Finance S.A., which provides mobile and fixed telephony services.[3][4]

TIM Brasil was founded as a company in 1995 and started commercial operations in 1998. Since 2002, has consolidated its national presence, becoming the first mobile phone operator present in all Brazilian States and, as of April 2017, has over 61.3 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.

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

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

Products and services

TIM Live is a broadband Internet service provided in some areas of 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).[5]

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.[6]

National fraud in Brazilian prepaid mobile lines

On 8 August 2012, TIM Brasil became involved in a scandal, due to a report release by the Brazilian National Telecommunications Agency (Anatel).[7] The report pointed out that on TIM's prepaid voice plan (24.7% market share), called "Infinity" (in which the user pays roughly US$0.12 for each unlimited time call), calls were intentionally dropped by the company which forced customers to make (and pay for) new calls to continue talking. In just one day, 8.1 million calls were dropped and the total profit was approximately US$2 million.

Upon release of the report, the Public Ministry of the Paraná State filed a lawsuit against TIM asking that it stop selling new mobile lines in Brazil and pay a multimillion-dollar fine for the damages against consumers.[8]

Logo history

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Conselho da TIM aprova nomeação de Luca Luciani como presidente" (in Portuguese). Abril. Reuters. Retrieved March 24, 2012.
  2. ↑ Teleco. "Resultados anuais TIM Brasil" (in Portuguese). Retrieved 25 December 2018.
  3. ↑ "TIM - Relações com Investidores". ri.tim.com.br. Retrieved 2014-07-29.
  4. ↑ Lepido, Daniele (December 19, 2014). "Telecom Italia Said to Favor All-Stock Bid for Tim-Oi Merger". Bloomberg News.
  5. ↑ Thássius Veloso (July 31, 2012). "Fibra ótica da TIM custa R$ 89,90 com 35 Mbps" (in Portuguese). Tecnoblog. Retrieved October 29, 2012.
  6. ↑ "TIM investirá R$ 100 mi por ano para ampliar banda larga no país" (in Portuguese). Folha de S. Paulo. Reuters. August 30, 2012. Retrieved October 29, 2012.
  7. ↑ "G1 - TIM derruba os sinais de clientes de forma proposital, aponta relatório - notícias em Paraná". G1.globo.com. 7 August 2012. Retrieved 2012-08-17.
  8. ↑ "G1 - Ministério Público pede a suspensão de venda de chips da TIM no Paraná - notícias em Paraná". G1.globo.com. 6 August 2012. Retrieved 2012-08-17.
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