Five years ago this week… Apple’s proposed $400 million acquisition of song recognition app Shazam went under the microscope at the European Commission’s (EC) antitrust watchdog, which called out Apple’s poorly-veiled attempt at trying to feast on Spotify user data via Shazam, to lure music streamers over to Apple Music. Increasingly, it seemed that regulatory bodies were dealing with M&A activity of internet and technology giants akin to the stringent manner in which operator M&A was historically approached. Apple went on to complete the acquisition of Shazam in September 2018. Orange lost 17,000 pay TV subscribers in France during the first quarter, falling to 7.9 million IPTV and satellite accesses. In Orange’s rest-of-Europe footprint, 102,000 pay TV subs cancelled, bringing the base down to 3,992,000.…