TIM Brasil Serviços e Participações S.A., commonly known as TIM Brasil, is a

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ian

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of TIM S.p.A., which provides mobile and

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. TIM Brasil was founded in 1995 and started commercial operations in 1998. Since 2002, has consolidated its national presence, becoming the first

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present in all Brazilian States and, as of April 2017, has over 61.3 million customers. The

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, through the

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technology, has a national reach of approximately 93% of urban population and offers services to mobile and fixed telephony, data transmission, and

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at high speed. TIM Brasil is

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and is listed in B3 and

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, in

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and

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, respectively. In 2009 TIM Brasil

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Intelig Telecom Intelig Telecomunicações Ltda., commonly known as Intelig Telecom, was a Brazilian telecommunications company, that offered fixed-line telephony services. It started operations on 23 January 2000, bringing for the first time concurrence on ...

. The process led to the

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of Intelig into TIM. On May 5, 2012, TIM's

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resigned from all of his duties at TIM both in Brazil and

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. There were charges, concerning scams, about the activation of

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s for deceased and non-existing customers.

Products and services

TIM Live is a

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provided in some areas of

and

, which uses the

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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.

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). 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.

Logo history

File:TIM logo (1990-1995).png, 1990–1995 File:TIM logo (1995-1998).png, 1995–1998 File:Logo Telecom Italia Mobile (1999-2004).svg, 1999–2004 File:TIM Brasil logo (2004-2016).svg, 2004–2016 File:Logo TIM (2016).svg, 2016–present

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* {{Authority control TIM Group Companies listed on the New York Stock Exchange Telecommunications companies of Brazil Telecommunications companies established in 1995 Companies based in Rio de Janeiro (city) Mobile phone companies of Brazil Internet service providers of Brazil Companies listed on B3 (stock exchange) Brazilian subsidiaries of foreign companies

Products and services

National fraud in Brazilian prepaid mobile lines

Logo history

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