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It was a pretty straightforward question with a pretty revealing answer. When Patrick Drahi, Franco-Israeli billionaire and founder of French telecommunications group Altice, was recently asked which other US cable operator he might be interested in buying following the announcement of his firm’s $17.7 billion purchase of Cablevision in September, he reportedly stated: “All of them, basically.”
Given Altice’s recent track record, that response is not as outrageous as it sounds. Since buying most of Société Francaise du Radiotéléphone from Vivendi last April, Altice has snapped up Portugal Telecom, more of SFR, US cable firms Suddenlink and Cablevision and has tried, but failed, to buy Bouygues Telecom and Time Warner Cable.
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