{"id":987370,"date":"2026-01-24T07:54:24","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T02:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=987370"},"modified":"2026-01-24T08:04:48","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T02:34:48","slug":"french-telecom-giants-eye-new-bid-for-rival-altices-sfr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/24\/french-telecom-giants-eye-new-bid-for-rival-altices-sfr\/","title":{"rendered":"French telecom giants eye new bid for rival Altice&#8217;s SFR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>French telecoms operators Orange , Bouygues Telecom and Iliad-owned Free said on \u200cThursday they \u200cwere in ongoing talks with Altice Group to buy a large part of its telecommunications activities in \u200cFrance. <\/p>\n<p>Due diligence started in early January, the three companies said in a joint statement, though they added there was no certainty the process would result in an agreement as the legal and financial terms of the deal had not yet been agreed upon. Orange, Bouygues Telecom and Iliad had launched a bid in October to acquire Altice&#8217;s assets, valuing them at \u200c17 billion \u200deuros ($19.9 billion), but the group owned by billionaire Patrick Drahi swiftly \u200drejected the offer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>French telecoms operators Orange , Bouygues Telecom and Iliad-owned Free said on \u200cThursday they \u200cwere in ongoing talks with Altice Group to buy a large part of its telecommunications activities in \u200cFrance. Due diligence started in early January, the three companies said in a joint statement, though they added there was no certainty the process would result in an agreement as the legal and financial terms of the deal had not yet been agreed upon. Orange, Bouygues Telecom and Iliad had launched a bid in October to acquire Altice&#8217;s assets, valuing them at \u200c17 billion \u200deuros ($19.9 billion), but the [&hellip;]<\/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-987370","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\/987370","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=987370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}