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Portugal Telecom. (Panorama: Brazil).


PORTUGAL TELECOM Portugal Telecom (Euronext: PTC, NYSE: PT) is the biggest telecommunications operator in Portugal. It operates mainly in Portugal and Brazil. It also has a significant presence in Morocco, Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde, Mozambique, Timor-Leste, Angola, Kenya, the People's Republic  and Telecom Italia Telecom Italia is formerly a partially state-owned Italian telco. It was once known as SIP, and it has the largest user base in Italy.

Telecom Italia also owns shares in Telecom Argentina and Telecom Personal, fixed and cellular networks in Argentina.
, European telecommunications companies, are increasing their presence in Brazil's wireless market. Portugal Telecom will acquire 65% of its Brazilian unit, Telesp Celular Participacoes. Telecom Italia is launching nationwide wireless service through its Brazilian unit Telecom Italia Mobile TIM (Telecom Italia Mobile) is Telecom Italia's mobile phone brand, and runs a GSM, EDGE, UMTS and HSDPA network in Italy and a GSM network with EDGE in Brazil. In Europe, TIM is part of the FreeMove alliance. TIM Peru was sold to América Móvil and rebranded Claro. .
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Title Annotation:and Telecom Italia expanding in wireless market, Brazil
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Author:Dempsey, Mary A.
Publication:Latin Trade
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:3BRAZ
Date:Nov 1, 2002
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