{"id":1021335,"date":"2026-07-16T08:11:47","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T02:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1021335"},"modified":"2026-07-16T08:20:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T02:50:30","slug":"orange-iliad-bouygues-sfr-deal-faces-french-antitrust-scrutiny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/16\/orange-iliad-bouygues-sfr-deal-faces-french-antitrust-scrutiny\/","title":{"rendered":"Orange, Iliad, Bouygues&#8217; SFR deal faces French antitrust scrutiny"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BRUSSELS: Orange, Iliad and Bouygues&#8217; \u20ac20.35 billion ($23.24 billion) joint bid for telecoms operator SFR will come under French antitrust scrutiny, the French regulator said \u200con Wednesday, indicating \u2060a possibly \u2060easier regulatory path for the deal. <\/p>\n<p>The telecoms industry has long complained about the European Commission&#8217;s reluctance to approve deals reducing the number of operators in a market from four to three, amid concerns about price hikes and less competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BRUSSELS: Orange, Iliad and Bouygues&#8217; \u20ac20.35 billion ($23.24 billion) joint bid for telecoms operator SFR will come under French antitrust scrutiny, the French regulator said \u200con Wednesday, indicating \u2060a possibly \u2060easier regulatory path for the deal. The telecoms industry has long complained about the European Commission&#8217;s reluctance to approve deals reducing the number of operators in a market from four to three, amid concerns about price hikes and less competition.<\/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-1021335","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\/1021335","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=1021335"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1021336,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021335\/revisions\/1021336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1021335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1021335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1021335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}