Vodafone and Three announce merger to create UKs biggest mobile network

Penny Horwood
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Vodafone will hold a majority share of the new company
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Vodafone will hold a majority share of the new company

Currently the third and fourth biggest mobile operators, the merger would see the creation of a mobile giant with 27 million customers.

Vodafone and CK Hutchinson, owner of Three UK, announced yesterday that they had reached an agreement to merge their mobile networks, after talks which began last autumn.  The combined group wil...

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