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Competition conditionally approves SFR-Numericable merger
2014-10-28 09:17:00| Telecompaper Headlines
(Telecompaper) The French Competition Authority has given its conditional approval to the purchase of mobile and broadband operator SFR by cable operator Numericable and its parent company Altice. Numericable will open its cable network to Orange, Bouygues Telecom, Free and MVNOs wishing to offer fixed broadband services. Numericable has agreed to sell the copper network of business operator subsidiary Completel and will have to give business operators wholesales access to SFR and Completel's local fibre loop. Numericable will have to sell the Outremer Telecom mobile businesses in Reunion and Mayotte to allow a new competitor to emerge in these markets. Finally, Numericable has made a commitment to not communicate any strategic commercial information to Vivendi in markets in which they compete, namely pay TV in France and telecommunications in overseas French territories.
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