The TIM Brasil Group operates as a mobile operator, also providing fixed and convergent services
The Group closes the first half of 2020 with 8,202 million of reais (1,517 million of euros) revenues, with a -3,0% decrease compared to the first half of 2019. Services revenues - ammounting 8,017 million of reais- decreased by 0.9% compared with the first half of 2019, reflecting the impact from the Pandemic. Mobile customers are 52 million, of which 38.6 million are 4G users, and it has a 23.2% market share.
TIM Brasil was the first mobile operator to be present in all Brazilian states and today confirms its commitment: it is #1 in 4G coverage - reaching 3,517 cities and 94% of the urban population - and is accelerating the expansion of the optical fiber coverage.
At June 2020 the FTTH technology (Fiber to the Home) reached 2.8 million homes in 24 cities, while FTTC surpassed 3.6 million. This represents a total of 5.7 million homes in 27 cities. TIM Live, the fixed residential ultrabroadband offer, reached a customer base of 600K .
During its presence in the country, TIM Brasil has become the pioneer in launching products and services, such as the introduction of MMS and Blackberry in Brazil. Continuing this trend, TIM keeps adding to its portfolio new and innovative offerings.
With a focus on the development of its network, TIM Brasil, in 2009, merged with Intelig, a fixed, long-distance and data transmission provider, to expand its infrastructure and improve its competitive positioning in the telephony market.
In 2011, through the acquisition of Eletropaulo Telecomunicações and AES Communications Rio de Janeiro, renamed TIM Fiber San Paulo and TIM Fiber Rio de Janeiro, it added to its infrastructure a fiber optic network with more than 5,500 km in 21 cities of the aforementioned regions.
To reaffirm the company's commitment to providing high-quality services in even the most remote and inaccessible areas of the country, TIM laid more tha 1,700 km of fibre optic cables in North Brazil (Amazonas, Pará and Amapá), totalling today more than 90,000 km of fiber optic network.
Tim Participações, the holding company, has ADRs (American Depositary Receipts) listed on the New York Stock Exchange. It is also one of the select group of companies included in the Corporate Sustainability Index of the São Paulo Stock Exchange.
