question: WIND ranks behind which Rome-based telecommunications company?
answer: Telecom Italia
context: Title: Telecom Italia
  Passage: Telecom Italia is an Italian telecommunications company headquartered in Rome, which provides telephony services, mobile services, and DSL data services.  It was founded in 1994 by the merger of several state-owned telecommunications companies, the most important of which was Società Italiana per l'Esercizio Telefonico p.A., (known as "SIP", from the earlier "Società Idroelettrica Piemontese"), the former state monopoly telephone operator in Italy.
  Title: Telecommunications in the United Arab Emirates
  Passage: Telecommunications in the United Arab Emirates is under the control and supervision of the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) which was established under UAE Federal Law by Decree No. 3 of 2003.  From 1976 to 2006 the Emirates Telecommunications Corporation (Etisalat) was the sole telephone and telecommunications provider for the UAE.  And while there were exceptions for free zones and modern housing developments, for the majority of the UAE, Etisalat held a monopoly on business and personal telecommunications services.  In February 2006, this monopoly became a duopoly when a new telephone company and Internet service provider (ISP), du, was established to offer mobile services across the UAE and Internet and TV services to some free zone areas.  However, due to geographical distribution of service areas, the companies do not compete for customers and thus effectively operate as monopolies.  Earlier du provided triple play services to free zone areas under the name Emirates Integrated Telecommunications Company (EITC), which is still its legal name.
  Title: AT&amp;T
  Passage: AT&T Inc. is an American multinational telecommunications conglomerate, headquartered at Whitacre Tower in downtown Dallas, Texas.  AT&T is the world's largest telecommunications company.  AT&T is the second largest provider of mobile telephone services and the largest provider of fixed telephone services in the United States, and also provides broadband subscription television services through DirecTV; combined with AT&T's legacy U-verse service, this also makes AT&T the largest pay television operator.  AT&T is the second-largest company in Texas, behind ExxonMobil.  s of February 2017 , AT&T is the 12th largest company in the world (non-oil and overall) as measured by a composite of revenues, profits, assets and market valuation.  AT&T is the largest telecommunications company in the world by revenue.  s of 2017 , it is also the 18th-largest mobile telecom operator in the world, with 134 million mobile customers.  AT&T was ranked at #4 on the 2017 rankings of the world's most valuable brands published by Brand Finance.
  Title: WIND (Italy)
  Passage: Wind Telecomunicazioni SpA (also known as Wind Italy) is an Italian telecom operator which offers integrated mobile, fixed telephony and Internet services (under "Wind" brand for mobile and business services and under "Infostrada" brand for home).  Wind Italy has 21.6 million mobile customers with a market share of 22.9% (placing itself behind TIM and Vodafone Italy) and 2.8 million customers on fixed lines with a market share of 13.2% (that makes it the second largest fixed line operator, behind TIM).  The company serves through a network of 159 owned stores and around 498 exclusive franchised outlets under the WIND brand, as well as 396 electronic chain stores.
  Title: Romtelecom
  Passage: Romtelecom was the largest telecommunications company in Romania; the majority of shares were held by the Greek telecommunications company OTE (54.01% of shares).  The Romanian state also had a minority stake of 45.99% in the company.  The company had a monopoly for the provision of fixed telephony services until January 1, 2003.  Currently, according to the OTE Group 2006 1st Quarter Results Press Release, Romtelecom has 3,835,647 fixed telephony lines, down from 4,279,038 at the end of 1st quarter 2005.  As of 24 March 2013 when Zapp network operating on CDMA was closed down, Romtelecom remained with the only CDMA network in the country until 1 January 2015 when the network was shut down, putting an end to CDMA technology in the country.
  Title: BTCL
  Passage: BTCL or Bangladesh Telecommunications Company Limited is the largest telecommunications company in Bangladesh.  The company was founded as the Bangladesh Telegraph & Telephone Board (BTTB) following Bangladesh's independence in 1971.  On July 1, 2008 the BTTB became a public limited company and was renamed as BTCL.  The Bangladesh government initially owned all BTCL shares, but stated it would sell the shares to the public the following year.  The value of BTCL is estimated to be at ৳15,000 crore (৳150 billion).  BTCL has a total of 12,636 officials and staff.
  Title: CenturyLink
  Passage: CenturyLink, Inc. is an American telecommunications company, headquartered in Monroe, Louisiana, that provides communications and data services to residential, business, governmental, and wholesale customers in 37 states.  A member of the S&P 500 index, the company operates as a local exchange carrier and Internet access provider in U.S. markets and is the third-largest telecommunications company in the United States in terms of lines served, behind AT&T and Verizon.  It also provides long distance service.
  Title: Gamtel
  Passage: Gamtel, or (Gambia Telecommunications Services Company), is the principal telecommunications company of the Gambia.  It is a state company, charged with the task of overseeing the provision of telecommunications and internet service in the country.  In association with Gamtel's internet company, Gamnet, it has successfully built Gambia's internet infrastructure.  The company was established in 1990 by an act of parliament as the single licensed telecommunications services provider in the country, with its stock 99% owned by the government of the Gambia, and the remaining 1% owned by the Gambia Port Authority.  In 1993 it commenced the task of creating the Gambia Radio & Television Service, a company that operates the nation's radio and television industry.  Gamtel currently employs over 1,000 people and its main offices are at Gamtel House in Banjul.
  Title: Tanzania Telecommunications Company Limited
  Passage: Tanzania Telecommunications Company Limited (TTCL) is the oldest and largest fixed line telecommunications company in Tanzania.  The company comes forth from the former Tanzania Posts and Telecommunications Corporation in 1993.  TTCL was wholly owned by the Government of Tanzania until the partial privatisation of the company on 23 February 2001.
  Title: Magyar Telekom
  Passage: Magyar Telekom Nyrt.  (Magyar Telekom Távközlési Részvénytársaság – Hungarian Telekom Telecommunications Plc.) is the largest Hungarian telecommunications company.  The former monopolist is now a subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom (in 59.21% of shares).  Until 6 May 2005, it was (and informally still is) known as "MATÁV" ("Magyar Távközlési Rt." - Hungarian Telecommunications PLC.).  The company was formed under the name of "Magyar Távközlési Vállalat" (Hungarian Telecommunications Enterprise) in December 1989, when "Magyar Posta" (Hungarian Post) was split to three separate enterprises.  On 31 December 1991, the company was re-structured as a Public Limited Company, as "Magyar Távközlési Rt.", and the company remained in 100% state ownership until the end of 1993.  On 1 July 1993, the Telecommunications Act came into effect, and now it was possible to privatise the company.  A consortium was formed by Deutsche Telekom and Ameritech International, which was named "MagyarCom", and bought into the company a share of 30.1% for a price of 875 million USD.
citations: WIND (Italy) Telecom Italia