In the UK, T-Mobile and Orange To Merge

In the UK, T-Mobile and Orange To Merge 74

Posted by kdawson on Wednesday September 09, 2009 @05:21AM 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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In the UK... (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Wednesday September 09, 2009 @05:29AM (#29363391)

In the UK, people annoyed by retardedly phrased Slashdot headlines.

Re:In the UK... (Score:4, Funny)

by ledow ( 319597 ) writes: on Wednesday September 09, 2009 @06:37AM (#29363679) Homepage

In the UK, at least one person annoyed by the non-word "retardedly".

Truly wonderful news (Score:4, Funny)

by Kupfernigk ( 1190345 ) writes: on Wednesday September 09, 2009 @06:46AM (#29363707)

This merger makes me very happy indeed. One of my kids is a lawyer specialising in telecoms competition issues. Recession? What recession?

German Tmobile and "France" Tcom? (Score:3, Funny)

by Culture20 ( 968837 ) writes: on Wednesday September 09, 2009 @07:45AM (#29363949)

Did they already extend into Poland?

Re:Mergers (Score:3, Funny)

by teslar ( 706653 ) writes: on Wednesday September 09, 2009 @08:19AM (#29364107)

Is there ever any news of mergers that hit Slashdot that aren't probed by the EU?
Does the Enterprise ever go on patrol along the neutral zone and nothing happens?

Re:Truly wonderful news (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Wednesday September 09, 2009 @08:27AM (#29364189)

I hope your kid catches the swine flu.

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