{"id":799645,"date":"2022-11-03T11:04:59","date_gmt":"2022-11-03T11:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2022\/11\/03\/telenet-in-talks-with-french-telco-orange-on-network-access-deal\/"},"modified":"2022-11-03T11:04:59","modified_gmt":"2022-11-03T11:04:59","slug":"telenet-in-talks-with-french-telco-orange-on-network-access-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2022\/11\/03\/telenet-in-talks-with-french-telco-orange-on-network-access-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Telenet in talks with French telco Orange on network access deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Liberty Global&#8217;s Telenet on Thursday said it was in talks with France&#8217;s No. 1 telecoms company Orange over a potential network access to Walloon cable operator VOO, which Orange plans to acquire.<\/p>\n<p>The companies have reached a memorandum of understanding which will structure further negotiations, Telenet said in a statement. Orange was not immediately available for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Orange last year announced its plans to buy a majority stake in the Belgian fixed line business from Nethys in a deal which then valued the firm at 1.8 billions euros.<\/p>\n<p>The planned purchase &#8211; currently under European Union anti-trust review, a source has said &#8211; would give Orange control over the cable network in Belgium&#8217;s French speaking Walloon region and part of the Brussels area.<\/p>\n<p>The announced acquisition of 75% in VOO dealt a blow to Orange Belgium&#8217;s local rival Telenet, which had not been selected to enter into talks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liberty Global&#8217;s Telenet on Thursday said it was in talks with France&#8217;s No. 1 telecoms company Orange over a potential network access to Walloon cable operator VOO, which Orange plans to acquire. The companies have reached a memorandum of understanding which will structure further negotiations, Telenet said in a statement. Orange was not immediately available for comment. Orange last year announced its plans to buy a majority stake in the Belgian fixed line business from Nethys in a deal which then valued the firm at 1.8 billions euros. The planned purchase &#8211; currently under European Union anti-trust review, a source [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-799645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-telecom"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799645","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=799645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=799645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}