Three-Vodafone Merger

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The UK competition regulator has approved the £16.5bn merger of Vodafone’s domestic business with CK Hutchison’s Three UK, which is expected to create Britain’s largest mobile operator.

https://www.ft.com/content/8e6f874b-...8-fa7130bd3629

I'm excited to see improvements in network coverage

Don’t hold your breath. When Orange and T Mobile merged, it was brilliant for about 18 months until they started rationalising the network and switching off towers they claimed were duplicating coverage. By the time they were finished it was a bit better in some of the places it hadn’t really reached before, but nowhere near as good as it was on day 1.

[thenry]

Oh great. I was thinking something like double capacity (VM cable upgrades alike) but for coverage. I get a drop off on Three during the weekends currently but when unutilised during the week I get 500meg download easy.

[thenry]

Vodafone's Three takeover progress in focus after recent disposals
Published: 14:14 30 Jan 2025 GMT
Written by: Josh Lam

Vodafone Group PLC’s third quarter update next Tuesday, February 4 follows disposals as the telecommunications firm readies for its £15 billion merger with Three.

Having received the greenlight for the takeover by the Competition and Markets Authority in December, Vodafone has since completed disposals of its Italian wing and stake in Indus Towers.

Proceeds of the respective £6.6 billion and £269 million sales were said to have gone on the likes of reducing debt and boosting shareholder returns.

Attention in the forthcoming update is set to be on progress of the Three tie-up as a result, which the CMA said was conditional on commitments to invest £11 billion on 5G ahead.

The deal has been expected to complete in the first half of this year, before paving way for efficiency savings in excess of £7 billion over the coming years.

Shares are little changed from a year ago, though have dropped over 6% in the past six months.

https://www.proactiveinvestors.co.uk...s-1065389.html

An 11 billion investment with 7 billion in cost cutting. Don't be tight just expand the network!

In increase in 5G coverage would be nice.

[thenry]

Vodafone and Three UK Confirm New Leadership Team for Merger

Darren Purkis, CFO
Kelly Barlow, Strategy and Portfolio
Clare Corkish, HR
Andrea Dona, Networks
Nick Gliddon, Business
Stephen Lerner, Regulatory, Government Affairs & Company Secretary
Nicki Lyons, Corporate Affairs & Sustainability
Stephen Reidy, IT
Jon Shaw, Consumer Operations
Rob Winterschladen, Consumer
Andy Yorston, Legal, Security, Compliance & Risk

https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.ph...or-merger.html

Andrea Dona, all eyes on you

[Dude111]

Originally Posted by Chris

Don’t hold your breath. When Orange and T Mobile merged, it was brilliant for about 18 months until they started rationalising the network and switching off towers.

Yup I was just thinking that!!

It will probably get worse....... When XM Merged with Sirius they destroyed XM... I thought XM was much better!

[toonlight]

Originally Posted by Paul

In increase in 5G coverage would be nice.

In your dreams, not to sound too nasty but 5G had been called 'an expensive experiment' by the people in the know... china claims it has 5g all the time Nope not true they switch it off, the transmitters that is... dropping it back 4g progress? Not really why? Power usage as 4g is much cheaper to operate.

So you can only hope that it gets better it isn't going to make much difference as they need more sites + power than 4g needs... hence the snail pace roll out > $$$ more operation costs. You should be looking at 6g which they should have gone to skipping 5g. As 6g it's not that far off an old 4g site with less base stations needed. (5G)

Think it as ethernet cable cat 5 worked.. just but then cat 5e > 1 gig not long after more than doubling speeds... yet even sooner you had cat 6.... it worked just no difference to cat 5e Then you had cat6a.... months after cat 8 .... lets just skip cat 7.

Which would you put your money into investment wise?

[thenry]

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has decided Vodafone’s merger with Three should be allowed to proceed if both companies sign binding commitments to invest billions to roll out a combined 5G network across the UK.

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/c...ng-commitments

[toonlight]

Quote:
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has decided Vodafone’s merger with Three should be allowed to proceed if both companies sign binding commitments to invest billions to roll out a combined 5G network across the UK.

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/c...ng-commitments



Well if that's the case the information I posted is more current as in the last few months of print as they studied many countries roll out of the same cancer causing/issues network... as for china is public information. They're flushing money down the drain only for it lead to spending more when there years behind with their rushed roll out of 6G which is already here in other places that put their money where their mouth was.... Oh yes rolling it out.

All 5g is.... GCHQ/NSA/etc devices in your own home instead of the network back bone lines.... hence the over due speed increase that the older devices caused aka latency. The UK power grind has had this tech since the late 1990s able to turn of a single home power from remote, made much easy with a GCHQ/etc special 'smart meter' talking to your electronic goods, able to shut them off when it suits them.

Please put the bong down.

[toonlight]

Originally Posted by Chris

Please put the bong down.

All the information has been printed/used in court cases/evidence plus given out by government.... prove it wrong.

Bongs are for ornaments not for playing with my dear.... As they say; Suck on it to see if it works.... I haven't.

No, you prove it right. Conspiracy theories aren’t true by default.

[toonlight]

Originally Posted by Chris

No, you prove it right. Conspiracy theories aren’t true by default.

You see your type always fall for it ... if it ain't given to them on a platter aka agenda it isn't true/right. I am right or not~?

Lets put it this way..... I'd put good money on it & I'm not a betting person. Why do near all 'Conspiracy theories' come true & get finally admitted by the PTB's when it suits them? Ask yourself... Keep on drinking the government cool aid.... It will charm your nerves of the real world.

Who to believe?

Some rando on the Interwebs, or my good friend of over 30 years, who is a leading authority on 5G technologies, ex-Lead Architect in Telecomms at the BBC, part-time SpAd on 5G at the DSIT, member of the UK5G Creative Industries Working Group, frequently speaks at International Conferences on 5G capabilities and futures, and has his own Telecomms & 5G consultancy where he advises Companies throughout the World on best practices and implementation.