Telecom Italia, Vivendi launch first joint content offering

Reuters

Vivendi has been keen to invest in telecom operators to distribute its content. The French media company has built up its holding in Telecom Italia and is now its largest shareholder with about 23 percent. * The new partnership envisages the Italian ...

TIM to launch low-cost brand to rival France's Iliad-report

Telecompaper

TIM (Telecom Italia) is preparing to launch a low-cost MVNO brand to counter the imminent entry into the Italian mobile market of France's Iliad, according to unnamed sources cited by La Repubblica.

Telecom Italia chief lambasts Italian corporate pay 'scandal'

Financial Times

Analysts expect Telecom Italia's domestic earnings before taxes, interest, depreciation and amortisation to grow this year for the first time in 13 years, and it is expected to do so again in 2017 and 2018 partly due to Mr Cattaneo's aggressive cost ...

Telecom Italia Quarterly Earnings Advance on Cost Reductions

Bloomberg

Telecom Italia SpA posted the steepest increase in domestic quarterly earnings in seven years in a sign that Chief Executive Officer Flavio Cattaneo's push into more lucrative broadband services and accelerated cost cuts are starting to pay off.

Enel challenges Telecom Italia with Metroweb bid

Total Telecom

Enel on Thursday submitted a formal offer worth €806 million for Italian fibre network operator Metroweb, putting itself in direct competition with Telecom Italia which has also tabled a bid, people familiar with the situation said. The information ...

UPDATE 1-Telecom Italia makes all-cash bid for Italy's Metroweb - source

Reuters

Milan-based Metroweb, currently owned by state-lender Cassa Depositi e Prestiti (CDP) and infrastructure fund F2i, would help Telecom Italia in its plans to roll out fast broadband across Italy. It would also put it in a stronger position versus Enel

Telecom Italia suspends controversial fixed-line tariff changes

Reuters

"With this decision TIM intends to show its willingness to quickly clarify the issues raised by the regulator on the basic fixed-line telephone service," Telecom Italia said in a note. The authority said a planned 300 percent rise in the cost of ...

  
Telecom Italia Said to Weigh 15000 Job Cuts on Enel Plan

Bloomberg

The move, amounting to almost 30 percent of the phone carrier's Italian workforce, follows the March 23 announcement that Enel SpA will spend 2.5 billion euros ($2.9 billion) on a network it will open to Telecom Italia's competitors, said the people ...

Telecom Italia Names Cattaneo CEO as Carrier Seeks Revamp

Bloomberg

Cattaneo used to run broadcaster RAI, experience that will be needed as Bollore pushes for deeper ties between Telecom Italia and entertainment companies such as Silvio Berlusconi's Mediaset SpA. Billionaire Bollore led the push to oust Patuano and the ...

CompaniesTelecom Italia names new CEO

Financial Times

Flavio Cattaneo, the former head of Italian broadcaster RAI and most recently boss of Italian railway group Italo, has been named the new chief executive of Telecom Italia, replacing Marco Patuano who quit earlier this month. Mr Cattaneo's appointment ...

Telecom Italia chief executive Patuano resigns

Financial Times

Telecom Italia chief executive Marco Patuano has resigned following a boardroom fallout with its largest investor Vivendi that has left the Italian telecoms group searching for a replacement to oversee the next stage of its restructuring.

CompaniesTelecom Italia wants to be “the California of Italy”

Financial Times

Telecom Italia, Italy's dominant phone company, launched a new brand and logo and announced new Rome headquarters on Wednesday.

Telecom Italia CEO says no contacts with Orange, other operators

Reuters

- ‎Nov 30, 2015‎

ROME Nov 30 Telecom Italia has had no contacts with France's Orange or any other telecoms operators, the Italian phone company's Chief Executive Marco Patuano said on Monday.

BRIEF-Telecom Italia fund investors ask Vivendi to unveil aim - document

Reuters

- ‎Nov 30, 2015‎

Telecom Italia fund shareholders ask Vivendi if its plans to exercise a significant influence at Telecom Italia also in relation to further operations such as a possible integration between the two groups.

UPDATE 1-Telecom Italia inks deal with Netflix

Reuters

Telecom Italia is boosting investments to build modern fibre optic networks and sealing deals with content providers, part of a search for new sources of income as its traditional phone services lose appeal amid rising online competition.

Telecom Italia Plans to Cut 1700 Jobs, Delays Youth-Hiring Plan

Bloomberg

Telecom Italia SpA plans to eliminate 1,700 jobs, representing about 3 percent of its workforce, and is delaying a youth-hiring program as Italy's biggest phone company seeks to reduce labor costs.

Telecom Italia becomes TIM, redesigns online presence - Total Telecom

Total Telecom

Telecom Italia on Tuesday marked the 20th anniversary of its TIM mobile brand by formally adopting it across its retail operations.

Telecom Italia becomes TIM - Total Telecom

Total Telecom

Telecom Italia on Tuesday marked the 20th anniversary of its TIM mobile brand by formally adopting it across its retail operations.

Ben Ammar sole Vivendi representative on Telecom Italia board - sources

Reuters

Vivendi last month raised its stake in Telecom Italia to just under 15 percent, replacing Telefonica as the Italian phone group's biggest investor and gaining a foothold in a country it said had significant growth prospects.

JP Morgan has 7 percent of Telecom Italia as part of Telefonica bond deal

Reuters

The Spanish group signed a total return equity swap deal with JP Morgan that temporarily gives the U.S. investment bank the stake in Telecom Italia. In two years' time, Telefonica will be able to retrieve the shares from JP Morgan and hand them over to ...