{"id":1008088,"date":"2026-05-16T09:34:42","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T04:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1008088"},"modified":"2026-05-16T09:50:55","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T04:20:55","slug":"french-mobile-operators-extend-talks-on-sfr-takeover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/16\/french-mobile-operators-extend-talks-on-sfr-takeover\/","title":{"rendered":"French mobile operators extend talks on SFR takeover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paris: French telecoms group Altice said Friday that talks with three rivals on selling them its SFR mobile operator would be extended until June 5, adding there was &#8220;no certainty&#8221; they would reach a deal.<\/p>\n<p>The exclusive discussions were announced in mid-April after Bouygues Telecom, Orange and Free submitted a new offer for SFR, France&#8217;s second-largest mobile operator, valuing it at 20.4 billion euros ($23.8 billion).<\/p>\n<p>They had already tried buying SFR months earlier with a bid of around 17 billion euros, which Altice rejected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paris: French telecoms group Altice said Friday that talks with three rivals on selling them its SFR mobile operator would be extended until June 5, adding there was &#8220;no certainty&#8221; they would reach a deal. The exclusive discussions were announced in mid-April after Bouygues Telecom, Orange and Free submitted a new offer for SFR, France&#8217;s second-largest mobile operator, valuing it at 20.4 billion euros ($23.8 billion). They had already tried buying SFR months earlier with a bid of around 17 billion euros, which Altice rejected.<\/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-1008088","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\/1008088","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=1008088"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1008099,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008088\/revisions\/1008099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1008088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1008088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1008088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}