Billionaire Drahi’s BT Fiber Bet Is a $3.1 Billion ‘Curveball’
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Patrick Drahi bought a 12% stake in BT Group Plc and pledged to support its high-speed broadband rollout, an unexpected move that marks a return to form by the deal-hungry French-Israeli cable billionaire.
Drahi’s newly created company Altice UK acquired 1.2 billion shares of Britain’s dominant phone company, it said in a statement on Thursday. The stake is worth about 2.2 billion pounds ($3.1 billion) as of Wednesday’s close and makes him the company’s biggest shareholder.
The entrepreneur has a history of challenging the old incumbents in Europe’s telecommunications industry and has often driven far-reaching change and asset sales at the companies he’s invested in. More recently, he’s taken a break from major deals to focus on paying down debt.
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