{"id":24955,"date":"2024-04-05T01:57:24","date_gmt":"2024-04-04T15:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.telecomstechnews.com\/?p=99574"},"modified":"2024-04-05T01:57:24","modified_gmt":"2024-04-04T15:57:24","slug":"cma-launches-in-depth-probe-into-vodafone-three-uk-merger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=24955","title":{"rendered":"CMA launches in-depth probe into Vodafone-Three UK merger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UK&#8217;s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has confirmed it will conduct an in-depth Phase 2 investigation into the proposed merger between mobile operators Vodafone and Three.&#160; The competition watchdog had previously expressed concerns that the \u00a311 billion ($13.92 billion) deal could lead to higher prices for consumers and reduced investment in Britain&#8217;s mobile networks.<a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.telecomstechnews.com\/news\/2024\/apr\/04\/cma-launches-in-depth-probe-vodafone-three-uk-merger\/\" title=\"ReadCMA launches in-depth probe into Vodafone-Three UK merger\">&#8230; Read more &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telecomstechnews.com\/news\/2024\/apr\/04\/cma-launches-in-depth-probe-vodafone-three-uk-merger\/\">CMA launches in-depth probe into Vodafone-Three UK merger<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telecomstechnews.com\/\">Telecoms Tech News<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK&#8217;s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has confirmed it will conduct an in-depth Phase 2 investigation into the proposed merger between mobile operators Vodafone and Three.&#160; The competition watchdog had previously expressed concern&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5034,6713,6714,120,6243,5068,1027,5042,5043,5044,6715,85,5046],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5g","category-cma","category-competition-and-markets-authority","category-europe","category-legislation-government","category-lte","category-merger","category-networks","category-operators","category-telecoms","category-three-uk","category-uk","category-vodafone"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24955"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24956,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24955\/revisions\/24956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}