Five years ago this week… Vivendi’s expansion continued, engaging in a 3.5% share swap with Italy’s Mediaset that forged a threatening pay TV alliance. Together, both companies had the potential to create a major content owner and distributor in Europe’s Latin markets, which held a customer base of over 18 million at the time. A few years later, in mid-2019, Mediaset shuttered the DTT operations of its Mediaset Premium pay TV platform in place of a bullish OTT-only approach with Mediaset Play, which is merging with the legacy Infinity OTT offering to form a single streaming platform set for launch this month. — CommScope has confirmed the inevitable as it begins the process of carving out its Home Networks…