Waking up. I am francine. We are live from the European Headquarters in london. It is monday. They have won the bidding contest for the ff are and the deal is valued at over 17 billion. Joining us is matt campbell. Is it finally over . It seems that it is over. 23 billion dollars. The new shares are the subsidiary that will be at 17 this morning. The markets like consolidation and they would like to see big money spent. This particular aspect of this transaction may be over. Cases andd be legal there is talk that we could be looking at consolidating the mobile phone sector and this is just one cork in a big machine. There is a lot going on in the telecommunications space and this is everybody reevaluating their strategy and we have seen that. Attempts soorted far. Literally, this is a stage where the company is thinking about doing big things. It is somewhat late. The next hour. Where does that leave the French Telecom market . We are going to look for some kind of mobile consolidation
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