In the conduct of its business, TIM comes into contact with many stakeholders, each one very different; to facilitate the management of these, they have been grouped into the following seven broad categories since same time, internal consultation: Notes in the table: a: by Authority is meant independent authorities, for example of supervision and control such as the Italian Communication Authority or the Italian data protection authority, or, in Brazil, ANATEL (National Telecommunications Agency) and MCTIC (Ministry of Science, Technology, Innovation and Communication).