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In the UK, T-Mobile and Orange To Merge

Posted by kdawson on from the what-is-this-competition-of-which-you-speak dept.

EthanV2 sends in BBC coverage of the merger plans of Orange and T-Mobile in the UK. "T-Mobile and Orange plan to merge their UK businesses, creating a mobile phone giant with 28.4 million customers. If completed, a deal between Deutsche Telekom's T-Mobile and Orange owner France Telecom would see a firm with sales of €9.4 B (£7.0 B, $13.4 B). It would be the UK's largest provider, overtaking Telefonica's O2, with about 37% of the mobile market. ... However, it is likely that competition authorities in the UK and EU will probe the deal."

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  1. Re:Mergers by Shakrai · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Is there ever any news of mergers that hit Slashdot that aren't probed by the EU?

    I don't recall the EU probing Slashdot's merger with Sourceforge ;)

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