Considering Three were knocked back taking over O2 just recently can’t see how this would get approval, or be good for the consumer.
Aren’t Vodafone for one the most expensive generally speaking historically for people?
Traditionally the cheapest and traditionally the most expensive of the big providers. Guess Voda will put the prices up…… then with less competition will put their own prices up again. Yay.
Funny how CMA blocks Ms Activision merger over some future hypotheticals but allows this to go through.
About time.
Out of the four big operators we have EE has been the only real choice for far too long. Three is hopeless in rural areas, O2 has been run on a shoestring budget for god knows how long, and Vodafone hasn’t really made any meaningful progress in the past five plus years either.
A merged Three/Vodafone would really have the chance to challenge EE and disrupt the market. Three’s £10 unlimited deals could only go so far if the signal was barely usable.
Vodafone’s rural coverage is pretty decent, and Three’s urban 5G network is world class. If they were to come together it could make for a pretty good all round network.
Can’t wait for the deal to go through frankly, even if it’ll take at least a couple years for the networks to merge together.
If you’re already with Three, hold onto your contract for as long as you can. It’ll never be this good again.
I moved to Vodafone from Three because the latter was completely crap.
Looks like Three is chasing me.
That being said, these mergers should be illegal. It reduces competition and choice and is causing everything that is wrong about capitalism.
This can’t possibly be good for consumers.
We’ve already only got (Vodafone, 3, EE and O2) with every other supposed mobile phone network just being a white label rebranding of one of those four.
And given the way the networks have been spitting on their customers this year (ramming through 15% rises which their customers didn’t know they’d agreed to), it’s clear that they’re not too scared of losing customers to their competition even before they reduce that number by one!
Hopefully the suggestions that the CMA is likely to block this merger are accurate.
Won’t hold my breath. Surely this is an easy no for the competition regulation watchdog?
Hasn’t this been tried before and got blocked? If this actually got passed you’d only have Voda3, O2 and EE network infrastructure.
Three companies holding a monopoly on the entire consumer telecoms industry isn’t fair for the consumer and should be blocked… again.
The CMA when Vodafone and Three are merging: “I sleep.”
The CMA when Activision Blizzard and Microsoft are merging: “Real shit!”
I’m on Voxi which I’m very happy with so hopefully it continues to exist if they do merge
Been a three customer for years after Vodafone robbed me off £200. I would be looking for a new provider if this was to go through.
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Considering Three were knocked back taking over O2 just recently can’t see how this would get approval, or be good for the consumer.
Aren’t Vodafone for one the most expensive generally speaking historically for people?
Traditionally the cheapest and traditionally the most expensive of the big providers. Guess Voda will put the prices up…… then with less competition will put their own prices up again. Yay.
Funny how CMA blocks Ms Activision merger over some future hypotheticals but allows this to go through.
About time.
Out of the four big operators we have EE has been the only real choice for far too long. Three is hopeless in rural areas, O2 has been run on a shoestring budget for god knows how long, and Vodafone hasn’t really made any meaningful progress in the past five plus years either.
A merged Three/Vodafone would really have the chance to challenge EE and disrupt the market. Three’s £10 unlimited deals could only go so far if the signal was barely usable.
Vodafone’s rural coverage is pretty decent, and Three’s urban 5G network is world class. If they were to come together it could make for a pretty good all round network.
Can’t wait for the deal to go through frankly, even if it’ll take at least a couple years for the networks to merge together.
If you’re already with Three, hold onto your contract for as long as you can. It’ll never be this good again.
I moved to Vodafone from Three because the latter was completely crap.
Looks like Three is chasing me.
That being said, these mergers should be illegal. It reduces competition and choice and is causing everything that is wrong about capitalism.
This can’t possibly be good for consumers.
We’ve already only got (Vodafone, 3, EE and O2) with every other supposed mobile phone network just being a white label rebranding of one of those four.
And given the way the networks have been spitting on their customers this year (ramming through 15% rises which their customers didn’t know they’d agreed to), it’s clear that they’re not too scared of losing customers to their competition even before they reduce that number by one!
Hopefully the suggestions that the CMA is likely to block this merger are accurate.
Won’t hold my breath. Surely this is an easy no for the competition regulation watchdog?
Hasn’t this been tried before and got blocked? If this actually got passed you’d only have Voda3, O2 and EE network infrastructure.
Three companies holding a monopoly on the entire consumer telecoms industry isn’t fair for the consumer and should be blocked… again.
The CMA when Vodafone and Three are merging: “I sleep.”
The CMA when Activision Blizzard and Microsoft are merging: “Real shit!”
I’m on Voxi which I’m very happy with so hopefully it continues to exist if they do merge
Been a three customer for years after Vodafone robbed me off £200. I would be looking for a new provider if this was to go through.
Also who needs competition anyway?