In the UK, T-Mobile and Orange To Merge

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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.

http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/09/09/08/2011223/In-the-UK-T-Mobile-and-Orange-To-Merge