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MILAN (Reuters) – Italy’s antitrust regulator said on Thursday it had opened a probe into a deal between sports streaming app DAZN and Telecom Italia (TIM) to assess whether it would hurt competition.
Telecom Italia sealed a technical and distribution agreement with DAZN, which secured the right to screen Italy’s top flight soccer league matches over the next three season for 2.5 billion euros
Under the deal, the former phone monopoly, which bets on soccer to promote its ultra-fast broadband and pay-TV services. would cover more than 40% annual payments DAZN has to make to Serie A, a document seen by Reuters showed.
(Reporting by Elvira Pollina, editing by Maria Pia Quaglia)
