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Orange Looks For Banks Help In Studing Bouygues Telecom Purchase

Caroline Vutagwa by Caroline Vutagwa
7 years ago
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French telecommunication company has hired investment banks Lazard and Credit Suisse to assess a potential purchase of rival Bouygues Telecom; this deal could cost Orange up to 6 billion euros ($8.2 billion).

Well, the telco has not yet made their mind in regards to effecting the decision; even with the discussions that were taking place more than a month ago, the company did not come to a conclusive decision.

However, Orange plans to wait for the watchdog’s ruling on Spanish telecoms firm Telefonica’s acquisition of KPN’s E-Plus in Germany, to have a clearer picture of what it might have to do to ease regulators’ concerns about a reduction in competition. The ruling is expected by July 10.

Bouygues, which is being advised by Rothschild, has become a takeover target after it was beaten by cable operator Numericable in a bidding war for French No.2 carrier SFR in March. Low-cost player Iliad could also be interested in Bouygues.

The French state, which owns 27 percent of Orange, is pushing for a return to three mobile players in the hope of calming what Industry Minister Arnaud Montebourg has called “destructive competition”.

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Although backed by the French government, an Orange-Bouygues tie-up would face several obstacles. It would be scrutinised by European competition regulators because the new group would hold 49 percent of mobile and 48 percent of broadband subscribers.

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To win them over, Orange would have to dispose of some customers, sell mobile frequencies and most of Bouygues’ network to Iliad, but it does not see such remedies as deal-breakers.

If the deal goes ahead, Orange would be the first former state-owned telecom monopoly in Europe to consolidate its domestic market.

Orange also wants to get Bouygues out of a mobile network sharing deal it signed with SFR in February since that accord would reduce the cost savings it could reap from the acquisition, said a person close to the company.

Orange filed a complaint in April to France‘s Competition Authority about the network-sharing deal, which regulators are now examining. Orange wants to delay, modify or even annul the accord and clear the way for its dealmaking, added the person.

SFR says the network-sharing accord does not hurt competition, and that Bouygues cannot get out of it since no provision exists in the contract to allows its resolution if one of the parties is taken over.

A Bouygues Telecom spokesman on Tuesday said it continued to work with SFR on the implementation of the network sharing and no talks were underway to end it.

Because of its smaller size, Bouygues has been hardest hit by Iliad’s “Free Mobile” service. Its mobile market share declined by three percentage points and its operating margin fell to 15 percent in the first quarter from 22 percent in the same period in 2011, according to Berenberg analysts.

The firm said in May it would cut an additional 300 million euros in annual costs by 2016, partly through job losses, as it seeks to ensure its stand-alone future.

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Mobile prices in France fell 27 percent last year and 11 percent in 2012, according to the telecoms regulator.

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