MSE News: O2 agrees sale, but there's no change for mobile customers yet

m5rcc

Mishomeister wrote: »

Really hope EU will reject this deal.

It’s not going to happen. Regulation is the issue.

Ive had this debate so many times. The UK competition authorities will not let a deal through that sees the merged entity take more than 25% of the market. It has only happened once — and that was in the stressed circs of Lloyds merger with HBOS. All over thimes the deals have been killed, such as Lloyds/Abbey and all the attempts in the supermarket sector, etc etc.

The simple reason is that if the authorities let one deal through it will happen in every single sector. Naturally a competition lawyer will say I am talking rubbish, but I’m right...

System

It will but they'll have to make some concessions regarding coverage, LTE bandwidth, MVNOs etc

Being the smaller operator buying up the incumbent also helps.

m5rcc wrote: »

It’s not going to happen. Regulation is the issue.