Orange lowers acceptance threshold for Jazztel acquisition offer

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French telecoms group Orange (ORAN.PA) has lowered the threshold of shareholder backing it needs in order for its 3.4 billion euro ($4.36 billion) offer to buy Spanish operator Jazztel (JAZ.MC) to go through.

The deal is conditional on 51.398 percent of shareholders backing the offer, Orange said in a statement to Spain's stock market regulator, down from the 57 percent threshold it had previously set.

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