Altice said to be coveting Charter

Several reports reckon French telco group Altice is considering making a bid for US cableco Charter Communications.
CNBC seems to have been the first to break the rumour but Reuters coincidentally dug up its own sources for the story soon after. Altice has been pretty pro-active in the US, buying Cablevision a year ago and IPO-ing its US arm recently. Buying Charter, however, would be a whole new order of magnitude.
According to the CNBC report Altice would need to find $200 billion to nab the s