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1. The network operators in the satellite TV sector are not, however, integrated with the broadcasters.
2. In December 2005, there were some 4,8 million satellite TV viewers in Italy but only 3,5 million subscribers to Sky.
3. The examples of satellite operators, or of one of the complainants, Sky TV, are very clear in this respect.
4. Even if the pay-TV digital terrestrial offer is for the moment not comparable with the pay-TV offer available on satellite, either in terms of type of service (pay-per-view vs. monthly subscriptions) or in terms of economic size (satellite TV collected almost 95 % of revenues from subscribers in 2005), there is a certain degree of substitutability between the two.
5. However, it considers that these arguments cannot justify the fact that the aid is selectively aimed at terrestrial TV and excludes the competing satellite platform.
6. Canal+ Le Bouquet and the Canal Satellite and TPS packages are premium pay-TV offerings in France, for which there is no immediate alternative in the French market.
7. Tuner transforming high frequency signals to mid frequency signals for use in the manufacture of satellite or terrestrial TV receivers for set-top boxes [1]
8. In addition, the subsidies came at a critical point in time, i.e. when many analogue terrestrial TV viewers must face the transition to digital TV and have the choice between investing in the equipment for receiving satellite or terrestrial transmissions.
9. First, Italy maintains that terrestrial and satellite operators do not compete on the same pay-TV market because they cover different market segments, namely free-to-air and pay-TV.
10. It is therefore clear that, depending on the state of development of pay-TV markets, the television offer on the digital terrestrial platform may be a competitor to the one on satellite.
11. Regulation should neither impose nor discriminate in favour of the use of a particular digital platform such as cable, satellite, terrestrial or DSL TV thus adhering to the principle of ‘technological neutrality’.
12. There were, however, a number of consumers who were interested in premium content (pay-TV) and who had to choose between the two available digital terrestrial providers (Mediaset, Telecom Italia), the satellite provider, and Fastweb.
13. Moreover, as stated in the decision to initiate the procedure, the fact that satellite operators are explicitly excluded from the aid measure is unnecessary. It also has the effect of distorting competition on the pay-TV market where some of the beneficiaries are incumbent operators on the very concentrated market of terrestrial analogue TV and can rely on very large audiences.
14. Mediaset maintains that there have been no unnecessary distortions of competition because (i) discrimination is simply the result of Sky's business choices; (ii) terrestrial television carries local channels, whereas 80 % of local programmes are not carried by satellite TV because local channels' revenue is not sufficient to support the cost of transmission (satellite is not comparable to free-to-air broadcasting); and (iii) there is only market failure as regards DTT decoders and not satellite decoders. This is because satellite is based on a subscription fee system and can recoup the costs of providing decoders to its own customers and because Sky, as a monopolist, is not subject to the free riding problem.
15. In Italy there are four TV broadcasting platforms: (i) satellite, on which the main free-to-air channels are available plus Sky Italia's channels, whose programmes can be accessed via subscription or pay-per-view agreements; (ii) terrestrial hertzian TV, on which 6 national broadcasters operated in December 2005 i.e. RAI (free-to-air), Mediaset (free-to-air and pay-per-view), Telecom Italia Media/La 7 (free-to-air and pay-per-view), Holland Coordinator & Service Company Italia (HCSC) which owns Prima TV/DFree, Gruppo l'Espresso and Television Broadcasting Systems (free-to-air).