computer science

PosteMobile

PosteMobile is a computer science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand PosteMobile rather than just read about it. In short: PosteMobile is an Italian telecommunications company owned by Poste Italiane through Postepay, which operates in the mobile telephony sector as Mobile Virtual Network Operator (Full MVNO) on the Vodafone network and, since 2017, it also offers fixed-line telephony and Internet services. Since December 2016, PosteMobile is the title sponsor of the Italian Lega Basket Serie A (LBA).

Key takeaways

PosteMobile belongs to computer science; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect PosteMobile to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of PosteMobile from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

PosteMobile is an Italian telecommunications company owned by Poste Italiane through Postepay, which operates in the mobile telephony sector as Mobile Virtual Network Operator (Full MVNO) on the Vodafone network and, since 2017, it also offers fixed-line telephony and Internet services. Since December 2016, PosteMobile is the title sponsor of the Italian Lega Basket Serie A (LBA). The Ministry of Economic Development has assigned the operator PosteMobile five decades of the prefix 371 (371-1, 371–3, 371–4, 371–5, 371–6).

History

On April 5, 2007, the agreement between Poste Italiane and Vodafone was made official which envisages the birth of PosteMobile. It was precisely on November 15 of the same year that the company began to enter the mobile telephony sector, starting the sale of SIM cards initially available only to postal employees. On November 26, PosteMobile launches its first public offer: after about 10 days from the launch, customers increased to reach 40,000 people. And at the end of 2007 the share of approximately 140,000. On 11 April 2008 PosteMobile launched its mobile banking services called "SIMplify" thanks to the technical support of Gemalto, later renamed "SIMply BancoPosta", and in 2009, precisely on 3 July, PosteMobile announced that it had reached one million customers. On 1 April 2011, Poste Italiane conferred on PosteMobile the "Rete TLC Fissa" business branch which manages the entire geographical network of post offices and operational and administrative offices of Poste Italiane. In 2013, PosteMobile changed its network operator, relying on the Wind network. In April 2017, PosteMobile entered the world of fixed-line telephony services with the launch of the "PosteMobile Casa" offer. Since 2021 PosteMobile returns to operate on the Vodafone network.

References

External links Official website

Illustrations

Former logo of PosteMobile (2007-2018)

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with PosteMobile

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what PosteMobile claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In computer science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to PosteMobile before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about PosteMobile ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of PosteMobile

In research: PosteMobile appears in computer science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses PosteMobile in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: PosteMobile is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Italian company stubs, Mobile phone companies of Italy, Mobile virtual network operators, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for PosteMobile outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study PosteMobile in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what PosteMobile means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain PosteMobile out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is PosteMobile in simple terms?

Why does PosteMobile matter?

Because it connects several computer science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study PosteMobile?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on PosteMobile.