SIP (company)
Società Italiana per l'Esercizio Telefonico S.p.A. (formerly Società Idroelettrica Piemontese S.p.A.), commonly known as SIP or SIPTEL, was the Italian state-owned telecommunications company, which dealt with public, fixed and mobile telephony. In 1994 it became Telecom Italia S.p.A. == History == In 1964, the energy assets of Società Idroelettrica Piemontese (SIP), founded in 1918, was nationalized into Enel; it then acquired all of the Italian telephone companies, becoming Società Italiana per l'Esercizio Telefonico (SIP).