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TIM - Statistics & Facts
Whether you are looking for a telecoms operator providing unlimited calls on your smartphone or fixed broadband at home, TIM has it covered for you. Founded in 1995 as a mobile telephony company, TIM acquired the fixed-line telecom company Telecom Italia in 2015, becoming a fixed-line and mobile telephony and data service provider. Today, TIM is headquartered in Rome, Milan, and Naples, and is one of the major players in the Italian telecommunication industry, a market that generated revenues of almost 27 billion euros in 2022. In that same year, Italy recorded around 20 million fixed-telephone subscriptions, roughly 18.5 million broadband and ultra-broadband fixed-lines subscriptions, and over 78 million SIM cards.
TIM Italia leads the Italian telecom industry
Despite being one of the market leaders, TIM ’s annual revenue fluctuated in recent years, amounting to just under 16 million euros in 2022. Furthermore, the company employed increasingly fewer people in the same timeframe, totaling around 41,000 employees in 2022. Similarly, the number of TIM mobile lines has varied, reaching under 30.5 million in 2022, as has TIM’s churn rate, dropping to roughly 13 percent in the same year. Although TIM leads both the fixed-line and mobile communication markets, TIM faces with the likes of Vodafone, Iliad, WindTre, and Fastweb,in the Italian telecoms landscape. Particularly, as of 2023, TIM occupied over 40 percent of the fixed-network communication market and commands almost half of the fixed-line broadband market. Finally, in 2022, TIM held almost 30 percent of the mobile network market, closely followed by WindTre and Vodafone.TIM Brasil profits mostly from mobile services
Also known as TIM Brasil, TIM S.A. is a subsidiary of TIM Group headquartered in Rio de Janeiro, with a headcount of almost 10,000 employees in 2022. With revenues of over 21 billion Brazilian reals (almost four billion euros) generated in the same year, TIM Brasil is one of the major telecommunication companies in the Latin American country. Mobile service is the most fruitful segment, accounting for over 90 percent of the company’s total revenue in 2022. Similarly, in Italy, the number of customers has fluctuated, counting over 60 million mobile subscribers in 2022.
