TIM Does Mobile Broadband

MILAN, Italy -- Telecom Italia presented its latest range of imminent offers in Berlin, where the company took orders for 3.450 million mobile phones, of which over 50 % were UMTS/HSDPA models. This exceeded the May 2007 Convention, where orders for 3.1 million cellphones were placed.

The TIM “Home Zone”

Telecom is rolling out “Maxxi TIM Casa” from November 15, a new offer that allows people to use mobile phones to make calls from home at particularly convenient rates. For €5 per month (including VAT), customers can make calls for up to eight hours a day (500 minutes of daily traffic) to landlines and TIM mobile phones for just €0.16 per call. TIM Casa Home Zone calls cost €0.16 per call, regardless of how long they last; the longer the customer stays on the phone, the greater the saving. “Home Zone” is also available in a fixed-only formula for €3 per month (including VAT).

The offer also enables you to bring your home fixed line number onto your cell phone and use the cellphone to make and receive calls at home. Even when not at home, one may always be reached: when somebody calls the home number, the customer is alerted by a free text message or via voice-mail service (according to customer preference).

In the “Home Zone” (within and around the home), the cellphone screen displays “TIM Casa”; outside the home, it reads “TIM”, so one may always know how one is spending on the call before it is made. To use “TIM Casa”, customers must have a 128K SIM Card, which is replaced free of charge upon activation of the “Home Zone”.

The launch of “TIM Casa” is a continuation of the fixed-mobile convergence strategy begun with the “Unica” quadruple play offer, which enables calls from both the fixed-line and the mobile network using the same phone, as well as providing Internet navigation and access to Alice Home TV content.

Telecom Italia (TIM)