The Italian IPTV provider Alice, which is part of Telecom Italia, will start to offer content from the Mediaset group of channels. They will include a catch-up TV service and premium channels.
Under the name Ultimi 7 giorni Mediaset programming from the past seven days on the Canale5, Italia1 and Retequattro channels will be available on-demand for subscribers to the (approximately) 329,000 subscribers to the Alice IPTV service. T
Premium content will be available under the Premium brand for movies and TV series, and live football we be offered under Premium Calcio.
These services are already available on the Mediaset digital terrestrial network in Italy.
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