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First Dual-Mode EDGE/3G UMTS Handset
for TIM

22nd October , 2004

Europe : Marco De Benedetti, Chief Executive Officer of TIM and Mauro Sentinelli, Managing Director, have launched an out-and-out revolution in the name of technological innovation: the third-generation services, in operation since May have been enhanced with the new potentialities of the "Combinational Services", which offer customers the simultaneous use - during a telephone conversation, of voice, photo, video and text facilities.

This evolution of the mobile telephony world is becoming accessible to an ever-greater number of users thanks to the use of the new range of TIM Turbo handsets that the Company launched in Italy in October through its own sales network. In particular the "Combinational Services" become fully operational through the NOKIA 6630 ( above ), the first Dual-Mode EDGE/UMTS handset on the Italian market to enable a simple phone call to be transformed into a multimedia experience. With NOKIA 6630 ( above ) that uses not only the UMTS but also the EDGE network it will be possible to converse and simultaneously exchange photos, videos, messages and electronic documents. In addition, the EDGE/UMTS handset with the "See what I see" service, thanks to its embedded videocamera, lets users video their surroundings and show them directly to their friends and family. In this way the cellphone annuls distance and makes a telephone conversation ever more similar to a personal conversation.

All of this is possible thanks to TIM's third-generation network comprising an EDGE and a UMTS component: the combination of both technologies enables TIM to repeat for its multimedia applications the success recorded in the introduction of the dual-band system as well as to provide high-quality services both within and outside buildings, on both networks without the customer being able to perceive any difference between them.
TIM, moreover, has extended the range of TIM Turbo handsets. The new UMTS handsets are the LG U8100, the LG U8150 and the Samsung Z107, while the newly arrived EDGE models are the Nokia 3220, the Motorola V547, the LG A7150 and the Samsung D500E. The new range of TIM Turbo handsets is accompanied by very attractive offers "to try out" 3G services for both new and existing TIM customers.

The new PC navigation card "ONDA EDGE Card N775" is also part of the new offer to TIM dealers. This personal computer card offers wireless navigation for downloading and sending files at speeds of up to five-times higher than GPRS (up until a maximum of 200 Kbit/s). The ONDA N775 card moreover, is designed to operate on all possible mobile radio transmission bands (850/900/1800/1900) in order to navigate freely throughout the world.

The novelties continue with a revolution regarding tariff offers, which is also addressed to the 3G world. In order to target young people TIM has launched "TIM Turbo Friends", a new offer that allows three friends to participate free of charge in videocalls up until a maximum of 1,500 minutes of traffic and to communicate with MMS, photos and videos at very advantageous conditions.

The new "Maxxi TIM All Inclusive" designed for mobile phone aficionados proposes, in a single solution, a TIM Turbo handset, 2,000 minutes of traffic a month, in addition to a large (as of June 30th, 2004), TIM, in Bilbao, inaugurates the new revolution in mobile services in the name of multimedia, leadership and technological innovation.

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