Sentence examples for sfr's from inspiring English sources

That's worth around €4 billion to Vivendi over ten years, but it needs SFR's profits to use them against.

Give Vivendi only 35% of SFR's earnings, however, and that telecoms figure falls to euro807m.

Mr Messier may talk about Vizzavi becoming the "default" portal for all Vodafone's and SFR's subscribers.

As Vivendi owns only 44% of Cegetel, its true share of SFR's ebitda ought to be 35%.

Vivendi justifies counting all of SFR's ebitda because it has board and management control of Cegetel.The effect on its stated ebitda is dramatic (see table 1).

Their fusion would remove one player from France's intensely competitive telecoms sector and allow the remaining firms to build margins and invest.But Vivendi, SFR's parent, thought otherwise.

Altice aims to keep its debt to four times earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA); and Numericable-SFR's to between 3.5 and 4 times EBITDA.

It wanted control of SFR, Cegetel's subsidiary and France's second-largest mobile-phone operator, to plug the last big hole in its European coverage "footprint".Why Vivendi was trying to stop it, however, is anybody's guess.

Under Messier, the unglamorous conglomerate changed its name and bought large stakes in Canal Plus; Rupert Murdoch's satellite television company British Sky Broadcasting; publishing and advertising firm Havas; and SFR, France's second-largest wireless telephone network.

Earlier this year SFR, France's second-biggest mobile operator, merged with Numericable, a cable group.

Earlier in 2014 SFR, France's second-biggest mobile operator, merged with Numericable, a cable group.