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Telecom Italia Lab (also abbreviated ad TILab) is the technology innovation center owned by Telecom Italia.

History and background
Service center born in 2001 from a part of the former state-owned CSELT and acquisition from Telecom Italia. The first CEO was Andrea Granelli. The parent organization CSELT was much larger and included also research department of fiber optics/optoelectronics and voice technologies, spun off in 1999 and 2001 respectively (as OTC srl and Loquendo SpA).

TILab is 100% owned by the parent company Telecom Italia (now TIM Group), a large private telecom corporation based in Rome.