TELECOM The Competition Authority has placed Thursday sealed offices in the seats of the two telephone operators who have recently merged …
Visits, seizures and sealed. Since Thursday 10am Authority teams compete simultaneously involved in SFR headquarters in Saint-Denis (Seine-Saint-Denis) and that Numericable in Champs-sur-Marne (Seine-et-Marne).
Questioned by AFP, the Competition Authority has recognized “have conducted visits and seizure operations in the telecoms sector,” without further comment.
According to the pictures and information sent to 20 Minutes with the union SMILE (“first independent union of SFR-Numericable group), offices were sealed and that” intervention should last all day “.
“The offices of the executive committee members are sealed, their computers were seized and confiscated mobile phones,” says 20 Minutes a CFDT union representative SFR. “Investigators then took to the hiérchiques strata and floors, especially in marketing departments working in the development of certain products. Hard drives were also seized, “he said, but said that” employees continued to work normally. “
In an internal message, the direction of Numericable, SFR group indicated in the morning that “in order to ensure compliance with the SFR purchase conditions by Numericable Group, the Competition Authority is investigating. ” “We imagine that the Authority suspected irregularities but we did not have any additional information from the management,” confirms CFDT delegate.
According to sources familiar with the matter cited by AFP and Les Echos , these operations would follow a complaint filed in November 2014 by the operator Bouygues Telecom, unsuccessful candidate for the acquisition of SFR. According to Les Echos, the competitors of the new merged group, Orange, Bouygues Telecom and Free “would then have expressed their suspicions on early implementation of the merger Numericable, SFR. Clearly, Numericable and SFR have deployed commercial strategies before receiving permission from the Competition Authority to merge. “
For the competition authority, it is therefore to ensure that SFR and Numericable had not started their merger of the two entities before the green light obtained on October 27, 2014. In the Line of Fire, including the new “Fibre Box TV” announced a few days before validation of their marriage.
According to Le Monde , if the facts are proven, the new operator could be sentenced to pay a fine of up to 5% of its sales Business, more than 500 million euros. However, the merger of the two groups should not be questioned.
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