But the Frenchman is unlikely to let it lie: He is used to getting what he wants and has this year taken major French operator Altice private, acquired a strategic stake in BT (primarily because of the ongoing fibre rollout work being undertaken by Openreach) and struck a deal to acquire French service provider Coriolis Télécom for up to €415 million. Drahi moved on Eutelsat while the share price of the French satellite company (which has the French Public Investment Bank as its largest shareholders, with stake of about 20%) was hovering below €10, where it has been for most of the past two months. His bid comes only weeks after Eutelsat, which generated revenues of €1.23 billion and an operating profit of €347 million in its most recent financial year, completed the US$550 million acquisition of a 17.6% stake in OneWeb, the LEO-based satellite broadband services company that has attracted a lot of attention, investments and even telco customers since it emerged from bankruptcy about 14 months ago.