{"id":1013015,"date":"2026-06-09T07:59:54","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T02:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1013015"},"modified":"2026-06-09T08:02:48","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T02:32:48","slug":"french-telecoms-groups-to-test-eu-merger-rules-with-23-5-billion-sfr-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/09\/french-telecoms-groups-to-test-eu-merger-rules-with-23-5-billion-sfr-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"French telecoms groups to test EU merger rules with $23.5 billion SFR deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PARIS: French telecoms groups Bouygues, Orange and Iliad-owned Free face a complex antitrust review of their planned $23.5 billion takeover of SFR, executives said on Monday, in what will be a test of \u200cregulators&#8217; willingness to support consolidation \u2060in \u2060the sector. <\/p>\n<p>The trio of bidders said on Saturday they had agreed to buy Altice France&#8217;s SFR for \u20ac20.35 billion ($23.45 billion), including debt, in what would be one of the biggest European telecoms deals in recent years if approved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PARIS: French telecoms groups Bouygues, Orange and Iliad-owned Free face a complex antitrust review of their planned $23.5 billion takeover of SFR, executives said on Monday, in what will be a test of \u200cregulators&#8217; willingness to support consolidation \u2060in \u2060the sector. The trio of bidders said on Saturday they had agreed to buy Altice France&#8217;s SFR for \u20ac20.35 billion ($23.45 billion), including debt, in what would be one of the biggest European telecoms deals in recent years if approved.<\/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-1013015","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\/1013015","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=1013015"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1013030,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013015\/revisions\/1013030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1013015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1013015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1013015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}