We know more about the uncertain future of Red by SFR

Since the decision of the Paris Economic Activities Court on Monday, August 4, it has been certain that the French telecoms market will sooner or later return to a diagram with three operators. Orange, Free and Bouygues Telecom are on the alert to take home the best pieces from the operator to the red square, because it is the scenario of a sale with cutting that takes shape. Who to take professional customers? Who for mobile antennas? Who to grab Red by SFR? We are starting to see more clearly in the ambitions of the operators.

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“Free wants to recover the entire Red”

This is a certainty today: Patrick Drahi wants to get out of the telecoms market and will probably sign the end of SFR. This did not fall into the ears of a deaf, the other three operators argued their claims and the talks have already started, reports us Le Figaro.

In latest news, Bouygues Telecom which has already acquired the Mobile Post from SFR, could leave with the mobile antennas. An outcome that does not enchant it because of the network operating costs amounting to several hundred million euros per year. Free Lorgne on the side of SFR’s professional customers and a little of its customers premium According to a source of Figaro. Another loot coveted by the market troublemaker: Red by SFR, on which Bouygues also has views.

Finally, Orange, who has a little linked hand because of his leading position could be used first, within the limits defined by the rules of competition, and let her two rivals share the rest. The big question is how these three players intend to distribute SFR customers and shops: 19 million mobile subscribers, 6 million fixed subscribers, 300 shops and 8,000 employees. For the latter, no one is interested, hence the fears of the unions on the destruction of thousands of jobs that would cause a sale to cutting.

The sharing of SFR is today only in its beginnings. Altice France must first conclude the restructuring of its debt, which is scheduled for September-October. If after that SFR is actually put on sale, it will not be easy between the arbitration of the competition authorities, the surveillance of Bercy who will be attentive to the challenges of sovereignty, and the unions and representatives of the staff who have not said their last word.