By Andrew Boyce ( July 16, 2026, 15:26 GMT | Insight) -- Having Bouygues Telecom, Iliad and Orange’s proposed carve-up of SFR reviewed entirely by the French competition authority was preferable to “duplicate” reviews in Brussels and Paris, particularly given the complexity of the cases, the European Commission found. In June, Bouygues, Iliad and Orange agreed to a €20.35 billion deal to carve up SFR between them, in a plan they said would increase the resilience of French infrastructure and give them enough scale to invest.Having Bouygues Telecom, Iliad and Orange’s proposed carve-up of SFR reviewed entirely by the French competition authority was preferable to “duplicate” reviews in Brussels and Paris, particularly given the complexity of the cases, the European Commission found....
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