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YulianK
SMARTY Community Manager
14-06-2023

[Announcement] Combination of Three UK and Vodafone UK

Today our parent company, CK Hutchison, and Vodafone Group announced an agreement to combine Three UK and Vodafone UK. We believe that the resulting transaction will be great for customers, gr...
Brookhouse's avatar
Brookhouse
SMARTY Commentator
14-06-2023

The combination of Three and Vodafone coverage, and 5G should be good. However, the merger could take 18 months, and may of course collapse.

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    MSF
    SMARTY Guru
    14-06-2023

    Brookhouse ...and at the end of it, Vod will actually own the majority share.

    Will they try to merge Voxi & Smarty as they appear to be similar offerings (since Voxi decided that it was not OK to restrict their business to the under 30's)

    Reserve my judgement on whether or not that's a good thing.

    • Brookhouse's avatar
      Brookhouse
      SMARTY Commentator
      14-06-2023

      18 months away and might not happen. Packages changing all the time so I'll worry about it when we get there. ğŸ˜‰

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        Chalkychap
        SMARTY Trendsetter
        20-07-2023

        Indeed, why worry about something in the future, which might never happen anyway should the CMA intervene.

        I suspect there'll still be space on the mobile networks for MVNO companies to offer value-for-money contracts / plans. 

        MergeCo - will it be #LessSMARTY, #MoreMalarkey, or #MoreSMARTY, #LessMalarkey?