{"id":1012824,"date":"2026-06-08T08:07:37","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T02:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1012824"},"modified":"2026-06-08T08:15:48","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T02:45:48","slug":"bouygues-led-consortium-signs-23-44-billion-deal-to-buy-sfr-from-altice-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/08\/bouygues-led-consortium-signs-23-44-billion-deal-to-buy-sfr-from-altice-france\/","title":{"rendered":"Bouygues-led consortium signs $23.44 billion deal to buy SFR from Altice France"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bouygues Telecom, Orange and Free-iliad Group said \u200con Saturday they \u2060have \u2060signed a memorandum of understanding with Altice France to buy telecoms operator SFR for \u20ac20.35 billion ($23.44 billion), including debt. <\/p>\n<p>If approved by regulators, the acquisition would rank among the biggest European telecoms deals in recent years. <\/p>\n<p>A break-up of SFR would reduce the number of mobile network operators in France to three from four, setting up a key test of antitrust authorities&#8217; willingness to allow consolidation in Europe&#8217;s crowded telecoms market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bouygues Telecom, Orange and Free-iliad Group said \u200con Saturday they \u2060have \u2060signed a memorandum of understanding with Altice France to buy telecoms operator SFR for \u20ac20.35 billion ($23.44 billion), including debt. If approved by regulators, the acquisition would rank among the biggest European telecoms deals in recent years. A break-up of SFR would reduce the number of mobile network operators in France to three from four, setting up a key test of antitrust authorities&#8217; willingness to allow consolidation in Europe&#8217;s crowded telecoms market.<\/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-1012824","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\/1012824","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=1012824"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1012833,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012824\/revisions\/1012833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1012824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1012824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1012824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}