TIM gets new CEO as Italy eyes new telco

The news that Pietro Labriola will be TIM’s new CEO is hardly a surprise, but rumours of M&A in the Italian telecoms market are perhaps more unexpected.
No sooner had the Italian incumbent revealed that its general manager will take the job on as well, than Reuters floated the idea of a merger between two of its major mobile rivals: Vodafone Italia and Iliad.
First the more concrete of the two stories. Labriola, then chief executive of TIM Brasil, picked up the GM post at the tel