Admiro (Miro) Allione (December 20, 1932 – January 14, 2006) was an Italian

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who has been serving as

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of STET and founder,

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and

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Before being involved in telecommunications, he was a professor of

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and

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. He also wrote many books about economics and mathematics.From

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Biography

''Miro Allione'' was born 20 December 1932 in

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. He was the first son of Abramo Allione, an

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and

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. The name "''Admiro''" was mistakenly registered at the local

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and was never changed to "''Miro''", the name that he always used. He graduated at university in

and

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in 1961 and then started a career as a Mathematics

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, also writing economic

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s and books. In 1984 he entered the STET, a leading Italian telecommunications company. Then in the 1990 he is promoted to

of the company. In 1993 he leaves the STET to create Stream S.P.A., a television company service provider of

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, that will become the second

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, until the fusion with TELE+ and the creation of

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. He served as

and

until 1999. In 1999, after leaving Stream S.P.A. he joined the Board of Directors of Systeam S.P.A., an Italian company based on e-systems integrators with an extensive portfolio of blue chip clients. Form 2001 he was the

of ''Marine Contractor'', a company working for

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in the construction of

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. During his life he wrote books, some essays, many articles on journals (in particular on il manifesto) and specialized magazines, covering mathematics, economics, and tele-communications themes. He was also often interviewed on radios (such as

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) and television about those topics.

Personal life

Miro Allione had two sons from his first marriage, Sandro and Andrea. After the divorce from his first wife, on 16 April 1992, he married Anna Maramao, with whom he had another son, Marco. He was a great lover of tennis, a sport he practiced very often, even participating in some amateur tournaments. In particular he is remembered to winning a Maserati Biturbo Spyder (Tipo AM333) at the 1991 tournament of the ''Società Ginnastica Roma''. He died in

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in January 2006 after staying several months in hospital. After the cremation, his ashes were scattered in the woods near

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, an area of

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that he loved very much in the last years of his life and where he owned a country house with his wife Anna Maramao.

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References

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