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French Ministry to Discuss Network Sharing by SFR-Bouygues: JDD 2013-12-01 16:08:38.63 GMT
By Marie Mawad Dec. 1 (Bloomberg) -- France’s finance ministry will discuss SFR and Bouygues’s network-sharing plans next week with local competition watchdog and telecommunications regulator, according to Le Journal du Dimanche. * Ministry disagrees with Iliad’s wanting to join Bouygues and SFR’s plans: JDD * Iliad wrote to SFR and Bouygues to ask that they open their network-sharing talks to allow it to join: JDD * JDD cites people close to Technology Minister Fleur Pellerin * Representatives of SFR, Bouygues and Iliad declined to comment; a spokesman for Pellerin could not immediately be reached outside of business hours * NOTE: Vivendi’s SFR and Bouygues said in July they were in exclusive talks to share part of their French mobile-phone networks to cover more ground for less. Iliad is France’s smallest wireless carrier. Related story: NSN MQCY4A6K50Y9 <GO>
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