https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from France in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Bouygues Telecom made a €14.5 billion ($19.9 billion) offer for rival provider SFR on Thursday, provoking a bidding war that could see the emergence of a new French telecoms powerhouse. https://www.thelocal.fr/20140307/bouygues-bids-for-sfr Fri, 07 Mar 2014 09:24:00 +0100 bouygues-bids-for-sfr French telecommunications equipment maker Alcatel-Lucent said on Friday that it had suffered a worse-than-expected net loss in the third quarter of the year owing partly to an exceptional charge related to the cost of buying Lucent in 2006. https://www.thelocal.fr/20121102/alcatel-losses-worse-than-expected Fri, 02 Nov 2012 10:36:56 +0100 alcatel-losses-worse-than-expected