In April 2018, Faultline penned the headline ‘Orange needs to buy VOO to keep its brand alive in Belgium’ – and it has taken until November 2021 for the French telco to heed our advice. Orange’s Belgian division is in discussions to acquire a majority stake in the local cable operator, initially at approximately 75% in a deal that would value VOO at €1.8 billion ($2 billion). A successful bid will mark Orange Belgium’s debut into the fixed line market – bolstering its 3 million mobile subscribers with VOO’s roughly 500,000 broadband subscribers and 50,000 pay TV customers. When we published these guiding words to Orange three and a half years ago, it was based on the ominous news that…