PARIS (WiMAX Day). The leading French institutional investor Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations (CDC) yesterday announced that it has acquired 20% of the equity capital in WiMAX license holder HDRR Multi-Regions for a total investment of €9.6 million Euros. The CDC is a state-owned financial institution that makes investments on behalf of France’s central, regional and local governments, and is the leading administrator of savings deposits and retirement funds in France. HDRR is an alliance created by the French companies TDF, Axione and LD to own and operate 11 regional licenses for 3.5 GHz WiMAX spectrum that were awarded in July by Arcep, the French telecommunications regulator.