Hi all, I beg to differ Scott, the SFR Group owned by Altice lays its own Fiber Optic networks and are present in all major cities in France. Each company that has been part of the group has a solid knowledge of fiber deployments for B2C and B2B clients. The mergers and acquisitions has helped the group consolidate many networks and add more capillarity nationwide. Regards, -- Beatrice Ghorra On Fri, May 26, 2017 at 11:42 AM, Scott Christopher <s@xopher.net> wrote:
Rod Beck wrote:
Altice is in the States and going public soon. They have been producing superior financial results. Appears to know how to run these cable networks better than the standard American management.
They don't actually lay any cable though, nor do they build their own network. They have been acquiring other telecoms at a brisk pace for 15 years as the industry consolidates. (They are debt heavy, especially for a European company, and this upcoming IPO is a 20% sale to grab more capital, riding the wave of recent market bullishness for U.S. telecoms.)
Not sure if any of us network engineers will like them in 2 - 4 years - but you're a business consultant seeing this from a different perspective. ;)
-- Regards, S.C.
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