According to Reuters Italy, TIM is going to announce the direct availability of the iPhone next tuesday. The source says that Telecom Italia may announce the iPhone as soon as monday. Personally i don’t think this will be the case as Steve Job’s keynote is planned at 18:00H european time. So it’s highly unlikely that TIM will be allowed to announce the 3G iPhone before Apple does it.

Read the full italian translated to english article here.