{"id":1025357,"date":"2026-08-01T07:24:40","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T01:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1025357"},"modified":"2026-08-01T07:28:57","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T01:58:57","slug":"french-state-cuts-orange-stake-remains-largest-shareholder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/01\/french-state-cuts-orange-stake-remains-largest-shareholder\/","title":{"rendered":"French state cuts Orange stake, remains largest shareholder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>French state investment bank Bpifrance sold a 2.5% stake in telecoms group Orange for 1.1 billion euros ($1.3 billion) on Friday, while retaining its position alongside the French \u200cstate as \u2060the telecoms \u2060operator&#8217;s largest shareholder. <\/p>\n<p>The bank said it was acting jointly with the state, which owns a separate stake through public shareholding agency APE. <\/p>\n<p>Bpifrance confirmed the two will hold a combined 20.4% stake in the telecoms operator after the deal, remaining the \u2060largest shareholder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>French state investment bank Bpifrance sold a 2.5% stake in telecoms group Orange for 1.1 billion euros ($1.3 billion) on Friday, while retaining its position alongside the French \u200cstate as \u2060the telecoms \u2060operator&#8217;s largest shareholder. The bank said it was acting jointly with the state, which owns a separate stake through public shareholding agency APE. Bpifrance confirmed the two will hold a combined 20.4% stake in the telecoms operator after the deal, remaining the \u2060largest shareholder.<\/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-1025357","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\/1025357","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=1025357"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1025358,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025357\/revisions\/1025358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1025357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1025357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1025357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}