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Investor Presentation Mar 7, 2018

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TIM Group

This presentation contains statements that constitute forward looking statements regarding the intent, belief or current expectations of future growth in the different business lines and the global business, financial results and other aspects of the activities and situation relating to the TIM Group.

Such forward looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve risks and uncertainties, and actual results may differ materially from those projected or implied in the forward looking statements as a result of various factors.

The financial results of the TIM Group are prepared in accordance with the International Financial Reporting Standards issued by IASB and endorsed by the EU (IFRS). The accounting policies and consolidation principles adopted in the preparation of the financial results for the FY17 and the 18-20 Industrial Plan have been applied on a basis consistent with those adopted in the 2016 Consolidated Financial Statements.

As a result of this, the Industrial Plan doesn't take into account the following IFRS: IFRS 15 Revenue from Contracts with Customers, IFRS 9 Financial Instruments and IFRS 16 Leases.

The financial results for the FY17 have not yet been verified by the independent auditors. Segment information is consistent with the prior periods under comparison.

FY'17 and 2018-'20 Plan

4Q'17 and FY Main Results

2018-'20 Plan: Key Drivers and KPI Evolution

Targets and Take-Aways

Organic data(1) , figures in €mln, % YoY

(2) Targets: Service Revenues stability & EBITDA YoY low single digit growth

(3) Targets: Service Revenues & EBITDA positive in all quarters (4) Adjusted

€mln, %YoY, Organic Performance(1)

increase in data usage and innovative services

Organic
data, €mln, % YoY, ARPU €/month
K, Rounded numbers, % YoY, 4Q'17 %QoQ 4Q'17 Net
Adds/Losses
5,275
+1.9%
620
TOT. CB 29,617 +3.8% 30,755 +470, +1.6%
TOT. ACTIVE 25,651 +5.2% 26,992 +405, +1.5%
Total
-0.6%
4,655
+1.6%
199
NOT HUMAN(2) +21.9% +517, +7.5%
Product
1,225
+0.5%
Services
HUMAN flat -112, -0.6%
4Q'17
FY'17
o/w Voice & Mess.
Only
7,757 -1,084 6,674
o/w BB Users 11,804 +1,091 12,895
Continued
YoY
Service Revenues
growth
sustained by robust
increase in data usage and innovative services
4G Users 7,613 +2,132 9,745 76%
of MB CB
+348 QoQ
ARPU Human(1) FY'16 FY'17

Total CB growth (+1,137k YoY) driven by M2M, Large Screen and reduction of inactive customers

BroadBand CB reaches 12,895k users (+1,091k YoY)

Active customer penetration increase: 1,342 k more calling lines,

LTE users scaling up sharply

1.3m TIM Vision customers(3) , +63% 22% of Consumer BB CB, +7p.p.

~20% of Consumer BB CB is single-bill F/M Convergent, another ~28% has also a TIM Mobile Line while paying 2 bills

(1) VoIP not included. FY'17 Line Performance including VoIP was -111k (2) M2M ARPU is ~0.7€/month in FY'17 (3) Including mobile TIM Vision customers are 1.5mln

  • 111 k cabinets passed
  • 281 k FTTH OTB installed
  • 18.7 mln HH passed FTTC in ~ 3,600 cities speed up to 200 Mbit/s
  • 2.3 mln HH connected FTTH in 30 main cities speed up to 1Gbit/s

FTTx Penetration(2)

4G Penetration(3)

18.6k LTE nodes

  • ~7,300 cities covered in 4G
  • ~1,400 cities 4Gplus speed up to 300 Mbit/s
  • 12 cities 4.5G speed up to 700 Mbit/s

R\$mln, Organic Performance, ARPU in R\$, Rounded numbers

2017 Domestic OPEX

Organic data, €mln

  • Remixing cost allocation: Net of Volume Driven, OPEX down €243mln. Volume Driven up €423mln YoY, driven by relevant 2017 Product Increase (inluding Smart TVs, Connected HH Appliances and Modems)
  • Market Driven YoY growth to support commercial performance and quality
  • Reduction in Process Driven Costs due to efficiencies in IT, Energy and G&A
  • Labour Costs reduction due to FTE downsize (-1.5k YoY)

2017 Domestic CAPEX

Organic data, €mln

Domestic Capex evolution composed by:

  • UBB network roll-out costs, driving the 212 Mln€ total Domestic Capex increase for the Year
  • Lower Procurement costs & Transformational projects
  • Steady approach in Commercial, supporting growth on UBB CB and ICT for Businesses
  • IT Efficiencies and ROI-driven reallocation of resources

€mln

€mln

FY17 FY16 YoY
EBITDA (1)
Adjusted
8,673 8,199 474
CAPEX (ex-Spectrum) -5,071 -4,876 -195
∆WC (2)
Adjusted
-219 -467 248
OpFCF
(ex-Spectrum)
3,383 2,856 527
(4)
Total Financial Expenses
-1,572 -1,659 87
Cash taxes -1,113 -218 -895(5)
(6)
Other
impacts
266 -371 636
EFCF (7) 964 608 356
Dividends -235 -227 -8
Change in Equity 16 1,304 (8) -1,288
Net Cash Flow before
M&A, Spectrum & IAS 17
744 1,685 -940
M&A 21 692 (3) -671
(9)
Spectrum
-887 0 -887
IAS 17 (10) -68 -218 150
Net Cash Flow -189 2,159 -2,348
Opening Net Debt 25,119 27,278
4Q 2017 4Q 2016 YoY
2,460 2,168 292
-1,820 -1,769 -51
858 549 309
1,498 948 550
-413 -386 -27
-309 -101 -208
186 -107 293
963 354 609
-17 0 -17
0 1,304(8) -1,304
946 1,658 -712
-4 4 -8
0 0 0
-22 -47 24
920 1,615 -696
26,228 26,735

(1) Reported EBITDA excluding Provisions for €883mln in 2017 and €197mln in 2016

(2) Reported ∆WC excluding Provisions for €883mln in 2017, Spectrum Clean-Up (Brazil) for €257mln in 2017 and

provisions for €197mln in 2016

(3) o/w disp. Argentina (€665mln)

(4) Financial expenses correlated to debt.

(5) In 2017 higher taxes related to 2016 final payment (€556mln) and 2017 advanced payment (€339mln)

(6) Delta FY17 vs FY16 = €636mln, o/w Exchange Rate Impact (€516mln), IAS17 Brazil (€68mln) (7) NCF before dividends, IAS17 & ex-spectrum

(8) TIM Mandatory Covertible Bond maturity covered via ord. Shares issuance for €1.3bln value (9) Spectrum Clean-Up Brazil (€257mln), GSM Licence Italy (€630mln) (10) Financial Leases

A record year, driven by ultra broadband growing penetration

Strong performance from main subsidiaries

Networks in Italy and Brazil faster and wider than ever

TIM recognized as most successful Italian brand among the top 500 in the world(1)

FY'17 and 2018-'20 Plan

4Q'17 and FY Main Results

2018-'20 Plan: Key Drivers and KPI Evolution

Targets and Take-Aways

Appendix

Best in class customer engagement through digital and agile customer journey redesign

Leadership positioning by sustaining premium customer base and capturing new growth opportunities in and outside the core

Acceleration of cash-flow generation to strengthen balance sheet and increase total shareholder return

Agile organization, performance based and data driven culture

Best in class customer engagement

Domestic
1



Leadership
positioning
4


Consumer
Sustain premium base through convergence
(data and exclusive content)
Extract more value from CB accelerating
fiber migration and new avenues of growth
Transform customer engagement through
Digital journeys and new simplified portfolios
2
Business

Sustain traditional revenue base through
convergence, fiber and VOIP migration

Accelerate evolution towards an "ICT
Company" to capture new growth
opportunities (e.g., cloud, ICT on SMEs)
3
Wholesale

Sustain traditional revenues through fiber
migration (e.g., NetCo)

Step-change growth of non-regulated sales
by radically improving customer engagement

Optimize coverage to improve competitive
positioning
TIM Brasil
Win share on affluent segments (e.g., post-paid SMB) leveraging
premium infrastructure and improving customer digital engagement
Further deliver on fixed and mobile UBB by expanding coverage
Accelerate cash generation through smart CAPEX and efficiency
program
5
Inwit

Strengthen leadership on
Italian tower market leveraging
on new mobile opportunities
and leading network
densification phase
6
Sparkle

Sustain traditional business,
expand commercial footprint on
new geographies and
accelerate data/VAS services
Cash-flow
generation
7
OPEX efficiency

Create a lean efficient and zero-based cost structure leveraging the
digital transformation and data analytics
8
CAPEX effectiveness

infrastructure
Maximize value driven CAPEX deployment leveraging current UBB
Agile
organization
9
Digital

Enable superior customer engagement
and omnichannel experience while
unlocking efficiency
10
Advanced Analytics and AI

(e.g., predictive maintenance)
Implement leading capabilities to capture
value both on customer engagement (e.g.,
predictive CLM) and cash flow generation
11

engagement
People, culture & organization
Drive accountability, transparency and
performance based culture via agile
organization and high employee
Execution
12

• Drive implementation pace and drastically streamline internal processes with end-to-end Transformation Office

  • Simplified, flexible fixed and mobile portfolios
  • Digitally enabled, intuitive customer journeys
  • Network in Italy (1) Network leadership: Fiber, 4.5G, VoLTE, 5G early adoption in 2020
  • Increased FMC convergence through additional content and mobile data benefits
  • Accelerated fiber migration to improve customer engagement and reduce churn
  • 2nd brand Kena to address non-premium segments and sustain TIM value
  • TIM acquisition focused on segmented approach
  • Enhanced customer base value management through Digital and Advanced Analytics
  • New avenues of growth: Mobile-adv, SmartHome, TIM Personal

  • Channel mix optimization towards digital and direct

  • Digital customer management: self and AI-enabled caring 3x Digital Sales
  • Lean digital and automated operations

Maintain #1 position for Best quality

Consolidate and extend to Fixed #1 position in CSI by 2019

-30% Human-operated interactions

  • Large: automatization to reduce order-to-delivery time
  • SME's: new digital commercial and caring engagement to improve service level
  • Evolution towards "ICT company"
  • Public cloud and managed services expansion to further grow Large clients base
  • Tapping of basic IT opportunity to improve SME's revenues mix
  • Step up on convergence, fiber and VOIP migration to protect SME's ARPU level
  • Adoption of lean digital business model
  • Contract management, ordering and provisioning digitalization
  • Optimization of service delivery and caring costs

  • -15% Order-to-delivery time

  • +5p.p. CSI for Medium & Large in 2020

-10% Customer care call volumes

  • Improved, faster delivery process of core services through new digital and automation tools
  • Upgraded and modernized assurance process, with improved self-solution options and site information quality
  • Fixed Access Network Legal Separation Plan: A Step-Change Evolution of TIM Full Equivalence Functional Separation into a one-stop shop, for maximum quality in regulated and unregulated services

Value and demand driven deployment of fiber with smart mix

Strengthening of Equality of Access for all operators

-32p.p. claim rate

60% faster E2E FTTC delivery time

+20% Field force productivity

Greater share of non-regulated services with streamlined process to improve delivery speedAdditional incentives to fiber migration through flexible pricing and innovative turn-key offerings

of FFTH and FTTC

  • "Smarter" Service Creation Process through increased automation
  • Superior Field Force productivity through automation and reward system optimization

  • Continued expansion of the best fixed and mobile infrastructure (4G, Fiber) to differentiate experience

  • Improve Customer engagement through increased penetration of digital interactions
  • Acceleration of mobile growth targeting more affluent segments (e.g., controle, post-paid)
  • Growth of Residential segment contribution to top-line
  • Step-change growth in SMB segment leveraging new organization, go-to-market and value proposition
  • Development of new, innovative revenue streams (e.g., IoT, mobile adv)
  • Improvement of Cash Generation ability through "smart" CAPEX and Debt/Tax optimization
  • Capture full digitalization efficiency potential
  • "Zero-based" approach on traditional efficiency levers

>4K Cities covered by 4G (96% of Urban Population)

>2X growth of e-bill and e-pay penetration

~5X growth in My-TIM App users

Mobile CB (%)

4X growth of residential BB CB (1)

≥40% EBITDA margin in 2020 ≥20% EBITDA-CAPEX on revenues in 2020

Strategic actions Impact by 2020

Focus on winning new stakes of MNO's tower
demand, leveraging on high quality portfolio

Extend leadership to next generation
infrastructures (e.g., 5G, small cells)
~400 New sites
~1k Fiber Links
~10k Small cells

Enhance cost base through revised lease/purchase
strategy
2.1x Tenancy ratio
-4% Lease costs/site
~1.5k Lands owned

Focus on data services to monetize consumption
growth and to improve market reach

Enhancement of service portfolio, focus on VAS (e.g.,
data center, security as a service)

Retention of core voice business
+25 IP POP
30% Capex focused
on transformation

Delayering and decommissioning of obsolete
technologies, virtualization to improve network

Review of pricing paradigm toward a scalable
"pay-as-you-grow" model (vs. fixed capacity)

Organization streamlining
100% Infrastructure
at 100Gb
100% Voice traffic
processed by virtual
nodes
FY'17 and 2018-'20 Plan
21
Milan, March 7 2018
€mln
Cost area
Addressable Domestic baseline 2017 Strategic actions Impact by 2020
Commercial Devices
& other
COGS
Content & VAS
Acquisition
Customer
management
Advertising
2,030
170
360
400
160

Optimize
specifications
& vendor
portfolio,
apply
procurement excellence
practices

Shift to digital channels (acquisition & top
up); lower overall volumes (lower churn)

Migration toward digital self-caring (App,
IVR, chat bots)

Analytics driven media mix modeling
20% Online fixed
(1)
acquisitions
-18% Customer
care calls
Industrial Network operations
Rent
& Power
360
660

Transition towards Network-as-a-Service:
Decommissioning/delayering
Virtualization and automation
Field force productivity and data driven
dispatching
Central Offices
decommissioning
begins
-35% Energy and
rental costs
G&A and Labour G&A incl. IT
Labour
cost
530
2,570

Real estate streamlining and consolidation

Contracts re-negotiation

Digitalization of work processes and
automation of recurring tasks

Organization simplification and de-layering

Use of early retirements and other
instruments to right size the organization
-25% Organizational
units
20% Digital-enabled
productivity
improvement
Addressable
Baseline 2017
7,240 ~80% of total OPEX(2)

1 Consumer only 2 Not considering capitalization of OPEX

CPE and success based +9 p.p.
Strong growth on Fiber migration on Consumer and ICT offer on Business
Mobile expansion +9 p.p.
Capacity upgrade on 4G

4.5G/5G deployment leveraging value driven analytics
Transport capacity, run
and maintain
+4 p.p.
3x mobile and 7x fixed network capacity increase

Network-as-a-Service transformation as enabler for OPEX reduction
IT Transformation -1 p.p.
New CRM and billing systems completed and released in 2017

Aggressive application decommissioning
Fixed access -20 p.p.
Selected improvements leveraging existing coverage (77% FTTx YE2017) to achieve 100
cities with FTTH and increasing our ~80% FTTx
coverage on a demand-driven basis
  • End-to-end digital customer lifecycle management
  • Personalized experience with smart targeting
  • New omni-channel CRM (BSS) and billing systems, based on an open service architecture
  • Deployment of Advanced Analytics capabilities at scale in all LoB
  • Radical middle- and back-office automation and simplification
  • Digital-first self-caring capabilities, focus on App and IVR
  • Aggressive IT decommissioning and simplification plans

  • Deployment of Agile operating model at scale

  • Setup of dedicated Digital and AA Centers of Excellence (CoE)

From website to eCommerce catalogue Single Convergent App for fixed and mobile

~20% Productivity enabled by Digital ~80% Smart phone customers never calling call center

  • New organization structure simplified and delayered
  • From silos to agile organization to enable fast decision making autonomy & accountably
  • Introduction of new digital competences (e.g., big data, network virtualization)
  • Dedicated retention & development program for Top Talents: digital learning, welfare scheme & top talent career path
  • Introduction of continuous rewarding plan based on larger set of KPIs (e.g., productivity) and targeting submanagerial resources
  • Reduction of labor costs leveraging early retirements and other instruments

  • Implementation of a new LTI for key people at the organization. TIM LTI is designed as a share incentive plan, with KPIs aligned to share performance and to cumulated Equity FCF generation for 2018-'20.

  • Plan to be approved at next AGM

  • -20% Organizational units

  • ~500 new "digital" talents to hire
  • ~100% Share of resources involved in digital learning and/or re-skilling
  • ~20% Wholesale on-field productivity increase

~4,000 exits

Strong Management engagement

A grid of 10 Workstreams, 40+ Themes(1) , 250+ Initiatives running across the Company

Transformation Office Caring Wholesale Open Access Business Consumer Wholesale Market Technology Procurement and RE Orga and Simplification Digital and Analytics Quality and CE

A solid Implementation Machine to drive Transformation

  • Dedicated Transformation Office with 20+ full time resources
  • 250+ initiatives articulated in 3,200+ milestones with clear responsibilities and accountability
  • Control tower infrastructure for continuous monitoring of transformational KPIs and real time transparency of economic impact, through a granular reconciliation between actual benefits and targets

Execution engine in place:

  • Weekly progresses led by Top Management, focusing also on the synchronization of cross-functional enablers
  • Monthly assessment of executional risks
  • Central "Swat teams" dedicated to support transformational workstreams (new capabilities and methodologies)

FY'17 and 2018-'20 Plan

4Q'17 and FY Main Results

2018-'20 Plan: Key Drivers and KPI Evolution

Targets and Take-Aways

Appendix

GOALS DRIVERS TARGETS / KPIs
Sustain
Top Line &
Profitability

Focus
on
value
maximization
via
accelerated
convergence
and
new
services

Drive
digital
and
analytics
as
core
differentiators
(both
cost
and
revenues)

Look
for
growth
in
and
outside
the
core
(eg.
Cloud,
IoT,
Mobile
Advertising,
Data
Monetization)

In
Italy,
TIM
Fixed
UBB
lines
(Retail
+
WHS)
to
grow
to
~9
million
by
2020
(3x
2017
figure)

Domestic
Service Revenues
:
Broadly
Stable

Domestic
EBITDA:
Low
single digit
2017-'20
CAGR (1)

Brazil & Inwit:
Continued
Growth
in
(2)
Revenues
and Ebitda
O
v
P
e
la
r
2
n
0
P
1
e
8
ri
-
2
o
0
d
2
0
Strong
Deleverage
and drop
in
Capex
Intensity

Enhanced
cash
generation,
supported
by
operational
and
financial
discipline,
will
lower
our
Group
Net
Debt/Ebitda
ratio
by
end
2018

Domestic
Capex
/
Sales
moving
back
to
normal
intensity,
having
now
completed
catch-up
phase

Group Adj. NFP/EBITDA
~2.7x in 2018, further
reducing
both
in 2019 and
(3)
2020

Domestic
Capex/Sales
<20% by YE2019
2
0
1
8
a
n
d
2
0
1
9
Relevant
Step-up
in
3-Years
Cumulated
Free Cash
Flow

Selective
growth
investments
to
maximize
ROI

Lower
capital
intensity
following
network
rollout

Reduce
costs
while
improving
customer
satisfaction
through
agile
customer
journey
redesign

2018-'20 Group Cumulated
Equity
Free Cash Flow
(4)
of ~ €4.5bn
excluding
spectrum and pre-dividend
2
0
2
0
(1)
On
Organic
basis
(3)
Spectrum
not
included
FY'17 and 2018-'20 Plan

(1) On Organic basis (2) Specific Company guidance is in the Annex section

(4) Cumulative '15-'17 Equity Free Cash Flow at €1.6bln, excl. M&A

  • Best in class customer engagement through digital and agile customer journey redesign
  • Leadership positioning by sustaining premium customer base and capturing new growth opportunities in and outside the core
  • Acceleration of cash-flow generation to strengthen balance sheet and increase total shareholder return
  • Agile organization, performance based and data driven culture

  • End-to-end transformation across all BUs, leveraging on cross-functional enablers

  • New organization and way of thinking

FY'17 and 2018-'20 Plan

4Q'17 and FY Main Results

2018-'20 Plan: Key Drivers and KPI Evolution

Targets and Take-Aways

Appendix

SHORT TERM LONG TERM
GOALS DRIVERS TARGETS / KPIs TARGETS / KPIs
Sustain
Top Line
Growth

Further improve Mobile Service
Revenue Share

Expand Residential BB Revenues
contribution
Service Revenues Growth:
5-7% in 2018
Service Revenues Growth:
Mid to High Single Digit
CAGR '17-'20
Improve
Profitability

Zero Base approach on Traditional
Efficiency

Capture
Digitalization
initiatives
potencial
EBITDA:
Double Digit
growth in 2018
EBITDA Margin:
≥40% in 2020
Expand Cash
Generation

Smart Capex "More with less"
approach

Optimize Tax Rate

Optimize Debt and Shareholders'
Remuneration
Ebitda-Capex on Revenues:
≥13% in 2018
Ebitda-Capex on Revenues:
≥20% in 2020
Capex:
~12B R\$ in '18-'20
(~20% on Rev. in 2020)

FY'17 and 2018-'20 Plan Milan, March 7 2018

SHORT TERM LONG TERM
GOALS DRIVERS TARGETS / KPIs TARGETS / KPIs
Maintain
leadership

Maintain top-of-mind positioning on
asset quality

Additional tenants on existing towers

Lead network densification phase
Tenancy Ratio:
1.9x tenants per site in
2018
Revenues Growth:
Mid single Digit
CAGR '17-'20
Address next
generation
infrastructures
market

Reinforce leadership on small cell
neutral host market

Start sharing model on fiber
backhauling

Prepare for "5G driven" new services
New Sites:
0,6k sites by 2018
Small Cells:
4k remote units
in 2018
CAPEX:
300 mln

in 2018/20
Improve
cash-flow
generation

Win stake of demand from new
players and FWA

Take off of new businesses

Keep up lease cost renegotiation effort
and lean organization
EBITDA:
Low Teens
CAGR '15-'18
Recurring FCF*:
Low Teens
CAGR '17-'20

Tackle Potential Consolidation Opportunities: Business developments open to M&A opportunities, supported by INWIT strong balance sheet

FY'17 and 2018-'20 Plan Milan, March 7 2018

* EBITDA – Recurring Capex – Change in Working capital – Cash Taxes – Cash Interests

€/month, k lines

BroadBand Customer Base

BroadBand Customer Base

€mln

(1)€29,345mln is the nominal amount of outstanding medium-long term debt. By adding the balance of IAS adjustments and reverse fair value valuations (€820mln) and current financial liabilities (€984mln), the gross debt figure of €31,149mln is reached. (2) Considered the new Revolving Credit Facility stipulated in January 2018.

€mln

Net financial position € 25,308

Maturities and Risk Management Banks & EIB

Average m/l term maturity: 7.75 years (bond only 8.07 years)

Fixed rate portion on gross debt approximately 71.3%

Around 33% of outstanding bonds (nominal amount) denominated in USD and GBP and is fully hedged

Cost of debt: ~4.8 %

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