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Friday, January 30, 2015

Marco Patuano meets with new minister and ensures TIM higher investment in 2015

President of Telecom Italia, Marco Patuano, met yesterday with the new Communications Minister, Ricardo Berzoini. He said that investment in 2015 will be higher than that made in previous years, especially in the mobile business, and that TIM could participate in the national broadband plan.

Patuano denied he had spoken to Berzoini on possible  consolidation movements of the company, and ranked the talk as "institutional".

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