A customer walks near the entrance of a SFR telecom agency retail shop, located next to an Orange telecom shop, in Beziers, Southern France, on June 24, 2026. Three of France's mobile operators (Bouygues Telecom, Free and Orange) have agreed a joint bid worth 20.4 billion euros ($23.5 billion) for rival SFR, owned by indebted French-Luxembourg telco group Altice. (Photo by Gabriel BOUYS / AFP via Getty Images)