{"id":1003564,"date":"2026-04-18T10:26:46","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T04:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1003564"},"modified":"2026-04-18T10:39:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T05:09:13","slug":"french-telecoms-trio-raise-sfr-bid-to-24-billion-in-sector-shake-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/18\/french-telecoms-trio-raise-sfr-bid-to-24-billion-in-sector-shake-up\/","title":{"rendered":"French telecoms trio raise SFR bid to $24 billion in sector shake-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>French telecoms operators Bouygues , Iliad-Free \u200cand Orange \u2060said on \u2060Friday they had made an increased 20.35 billion euro ($23.97 billion) bid to buy SFR from billionaire Patrick Drahi&#8217;s Altice France. <\/p>\n<p>If it goes ahead, the proposed deal would shake up one of the most competitive telecoms markets in Europe as operators in France have been engaged in a price war for several years, pressuring margins and revenue \u2060growth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>French telecoms operators Bouygues , Iliad-Free \u200cand Orange \u2060said on \u2060Friday they had made an increased 20.35 billion euro ($23.97 billion) bid to buy SFR from billionaire Patrick Drahi&#8217;s Altice France. If it goes ahead, the proposed deal would shake up one of the most competitive telecoms markets in Europe as operators in France have been engaged in a price war for several years, pressuring margins and revenue \u2060growth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1003564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1003564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1003564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1003564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1003564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}