[Pierre]

It's a good story, and one that was doing the rounds before Liberty bought VM.

I'm not saying it won't happen but there would be quite a few hurdles to overcome, not least Verizon coming up with 130billion to buy Vodafone out.

There may be a number of competition concerns too.

Vodafone, bought C&W who in turn had bought Energis and Thus in the UK, throwing VM into that might be a carrier too far, who knows.