sentences:  Regulations provided for highly favourable concessions that were awarded to private operators (up to 99 years).Water and Sewage Treatment service providers often diversified into the cable market and used their close ties with local municipalities to win concessions.On June 6, 1985, the group Lyonnaise des eaux created the company Paris Câble, which would later become Lyonnaise Câble, Noos, and Numericable.