TIM Brasil

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TIM Brasil Serviços e Participações S.A.

TIM Brasil shop
Company type	Public
Traded as	B3: TIMP3 NYSE: TIMB (ADS)
Industry	Telecommunications
Founded	June 25, 1998; 26 years ago (1998-06-25)
Founder	Telecom Italia
Headquarters	Rio de Janeiro , Brazil
Area served	Brazil
Key people	Manoel Horácio Francisco da Silva (chairman) Rodrigo Modesto de Abreu (CEO)[1]
Products	Mobile telephony, fixed telephony
Owner	Telecom Italia Finance (99.9999%) Telecom Italia (0.0001%)
Number of employees	9,519[2] (2017)
Parent	Telecom Italia
Subsidiaries	TIM Participações S.A. (66.58%) TIM Celular S.A. (100%) TIM S.A. (99.99%)
Website	www.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 B3 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.