| Telecom Italia S.p.A. is an Italy-based telecommunications group that operates in the communications sector, in the television sector using both analog and digital terrestrial technology, and in the office products sector. The Company is engaged principally in the communications sector and, particularly, in telephone and data services on fixed lines, for final retail customers and wholesale providers, in the development of fiber optic networks for wholesale customers, in Internet services, in domestic and international mobile telecommunications (especially in Brazil), in the television sector using both analog and digital terrestrial technology and in the office products sector. The Company operates mainly in Europe, the Mediterranean Basin and in South America. In August 2008, ILIAD SA announced that it had finalized the acquisition of Alice France, the broadband operations of the Company. |