TIM is doing very well, but Telecom Italia, the landline operator, is the former statal monopolist and has a lot of debts, like any former statal company. Last yeat TIM and Telecom joined again together, like they were in the 90s, that's mostly due to the fact TIM had cash to pay many debts of Telecom. Much of that cash came from the selling of foreign operators (not fully owned, or fully owned) like Bouygues, Amena, TIM Greece, TIM Peru and now TIM Venezuela.
Telecom has huge debts, they don't want to talk about it on Italian newspapers, but I fear it could happen something like Parmalat... unless TIM pays everything. TIM has become much more aggressive on the market recently, expecially with postpaid offers, that's something unusual for our tlc market.
Anyway, I hate Telecom!
