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Telecom Italia (BIT: TIT, NYSE: TI) is the largest Italian telephone company. Now a private company, it was founded in 1994 by the merger of several state-owned telecommunications companies, the most important of which was Società Italiana per L'Esercizio Telefonico p.A. (SIP), the monopoly telephone operator in Italy.
The company operates landline telephone services in Italy, GSM mobile phone services in Italy and Brazil under the name TIM, and DSL internet and telephony services under the brand Alice in Italy, Germany,[1] France, San Marino and the Netherlands. It also owns a stake in Telecom Argentina in Argentina. It also controls one of the main Italian TV networks: Telecom Italia Media.
On December 13, 2006, Telecom Italia suffered a widespread DNS outage. Newspapers including La Repubblica printed instructions on how users could switch their DNS service to OpenDNS to restore service.
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