Competitors

[G4-DMA Anti-competitive Behavior]  TIM is committed to promoting fair competition, a factor considered to be in its interests and those of all market operators, customers and stakeholders in general, promoting and participating in initiatives and projects, together with competitors, and in the management of technical round tables and the activities of trade associations.

In this context our stakeholders are:

• the Alternative Operators;
• the Italian Communications Authority (AGCOM);
• the Italian Competition and Market Authority (AGCM);
• associations, federations and national and international trade associations.

TIM manages relations with associations, coordinating representation activities in respect of Confindustria and other Trade associations

Initiatives at national and local level consist of actions and meetings about business development and protecting the Company’s interests in the fields of economics, regulations, trade unions and labour. These initiatives are based on dialogue and comparing respective positions in order to identify, where possible, a common position for the sector to be presented to national and European Community institutions. 

The Group is a member of over 100 local associations, including, in particular, CD Confindustria Digitale and Associazione delle società di TLC (Telecommunications Companies Association). Since 2010, TIM joined Assinform, the national association of leading Information Technology companies operating in the Italian market, which acts as a link between the main economic, political and institutional entities for the development of Italy as a national system by recourse to innovation and new technologies.

Together with the other operators, TIM takes part in the Ugo Bordoni Foundation (FUB), which aims to carry out research and studies in the communication and digital technology sector for the purpose of promoting scientific progress and technological innovation. The Foundation, in which public administration performs management and control functions, provides advice to Parliament, the Government and independent administrative Authorities.

TIM also participates in the Audio and ICT District, a consortium of more than 20 businesses operating in the information technology, telecommunications, networking and media sectors. Sponsored by the Municipality of Rome, the Union of Industrialists and the Rome Chamber of Commerce, the objective of the District is to express and represent, within its field, the industrial activities and services operating in the new economic area of the great convergence or multimediality.

In order to monitor the competitive scenario, quantitative surveys are periodically carried out on a representative sample of the adult Italian population to measure the effectiveness of advertising for telecommunication services. These give all operators information on how well they are known, revealing unprompted and prompted knowledge of advertising, recollection of advertising content, enjoyment of advertising and likelihood of entering into a contract.

For many years now, the Company has had an overall reputation monitoring service (MediaMonitor) related to all types of media (print and online, radio, TV, social web). The tool analyses and verifies the competitive scenario, the presence of TIM and its main competitors. MediaMonitor allows TIM to be positioned quantitatively (number of hits and visibility) and qualitatively (positive/negative arguments, sentiment, image profile) in the competitive context, highlighting the positive and negative areas in the individual media. An alerting system has also be activated on subjects that may potentially have an impact on the Group’s reputation.

As of 2014, an annual monitoring system has been launched to assess the impact of the TIM brand, the single trading brand, on the telecommunications market. Competitive strength is also measured by identifying the reasons for TIM’s performance compared with competitors.