June 2008: Some services are made available free-to-air. See below under Tariffs.

Italy (nationwide) - Roof coverage of 85% of population

H3G S.p.A.

info@3power.com
http://www.tre.it/

5 June 2006

600,000 - up to May 2007

PayTV, Free-to-Air, Pay.per-view

12 channels (Mediaset, Rai, Sky, La3 Live, La3 Sport)
See current list here.

Daily, weekly or monthly packages, with or without other services included. Pay-as-you-go users can access the mobile TV service at €4 per day, €9 per week, €19 per month or 29€ for 3 months. Alternatively, subscribers can pay €29 per month getting free access to all digital mobile TV services, access to 3 Club on 3 Mobile Portal, free national calls and one GB/month of mobile brodband Internet.

As of June 2008, RAI 1, RAI 2, Mediaset, Sky Meteo 24, Current TV and La3 are made available free-to-air to those with DVB-H receivers. La3 is an in-house channel, showing sports, music and entertainment programming.

1000+ transmitters from 5 W to 2.5 KW
Covering 85% of population (48 million people)

474-746 MHz
CH 21-55

FFT=8k;
Modulation QPSK;
FEC=1/2;
Guard Interval=1/8;
MPE-FEC=3/4;
Timeslice=2 sec;

All - no heirarchical modulation

H.264/AAC+

FastESG from EXPWAY - compliant with DVB-IPDC specifications.

CAS-Nagravision; Gemplus
Encryption system: ISMACryp

n/a

Samsung F510
Samsung P910
Samsung SGH P910
LG HB620
LG U900
LG U960
Momedesign MD5
Garmin 900T
Onda DH502HS USB device for watching on a PC.
3 Pocket TV (a handheld device with a 4.3" display, using USIM and supporting SD cards)

(Last update 06/06/2008)