Technology

The technological awards achieved by the Telecom Italia Group highlight the company’s commitment and focus on innovation and the search for technological solutions in line with changing social needs.

2009

The prize-winning e-health project MyDoctor@home
MyDoctor@Home, the e-health service developed by Telecom Italia and now being provided at the Geriatric Ward of the Molinette Hospital in Turin, has won the Poster Session dedicated to telemedicine in the Final Event of the European Health Optimum Project held in Verona in June 2009.
The service uses portable devices with Bluetooth technology to provide home monitoring of a patient’s physical condition and then transmits the data via mobile phone to a platform operating in the Telecom Italia data centres to which the health care facility has access.

2008

The mobile phone becomes an electronic wallet
The new Telecom Italia mobile payment project utilises the capacities of the SIM card. Once the customers’ bank has linked the telephone number with a credit card or prepaid debit card, the customers may make purchases, manage their current account, buy tickets and authorise credit transfers from their bank account.

2007

The first “BOOKPHONE”This is the first cell phone in the world with a removable display, thanks to the original Polymer Vision technology integrating in mobile phones a screen larger than the phone itself, providing the reader with a contrast similar to that of printed paper. Smaller than the average cell phone, it is equipped with a screen that can be increased to a size of up to 13 centimetres; because of the flexibility of the polymers, it can easily be reinserted in the mobile phone after use.

The Alice 20 Mega offer
Superfast Internet connections up to 20 Megabits per second with ADSL 2 Plus technology, TV via internet, and the most advanced communication services with Alice 20 Mega, with video calls between fixed and mobile phones, wireless web access, VoIP calls, high definition video programmes and other content.

2006

The new Wi-Bro technology

For the Winter Olympics in Turin, TIM and Samsung Electronics are the first in Europe to test Wi-Bro (Wireless Broadband), the mobile broadband that predates the fourth generation mobile phones. The Wi-Bro mobile phones are marketed by Telecom Italia from the early months of 2007.

2004

The mobile broadband network
The first in Italy, TIM launched EDGE, the broadband network with national coverage for high speed data transmission.

2003

With WLAN, wireless becomes mobile
The first in Italy, TIM launched the WLAN (Wireless Local Area Network) service on its mobile network.

The mobile broadband network
The first in Italy, TIM has launched EDGE, the broadband network with national coverage for high speed data transmission.

Date of last update: 25 April 2004 - 11:00

 

With WLAN, wireless becomes mobile
The first in Italy, TIM has launched the WLAN (Wireless Local Area Network) service on the mobile network.

Date of last update: 22 December 2003 - 11:00