WIND (Italy)

Wind Telecomunicazioni SpA is an Italian telecom operator which offers integrated mobile, fixed and IPTV (under Infostrada brand) and Internet services (under Libero brand) and has also a sister network in Greece: WIND Hellas (formerly TIM Hellas). Recently the WIND brand has been introduced in Canada as WIND Mobile.

It is best known for being the third largest mobile phone company which operates in Italy (the other three are TIM, Vodafone Italy and H3G). At the end of 2007 it was ranked as 18th in Europe by subscriber numbers .

History

Wind was established in 1997 by the Italian Electrical Company Enel, which sold Wind in 2005 to Weather Investments. In 2006 Weather Investments appointed Khaled Bichara as the Chief Operating Officer of the company.

Wind was the third mobile operator to join the Italian market (after TIM and Vodafone Italy, formerly know as Omnitel Pronto Italia), that is why it has more channels: 1800 as opposed to 900, that have been assigned before to TIM and Vodafone Italy.

Wind currently runs a GSM (900/1800/E900), GPRS, EDGE, UMTS (videocall and mobile broadband) and HSDPA network. While the GSM/GPRS network is available almost...
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