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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11290

9 April 2015
ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS / (ae) competition
Investigation into TeliaSonera-Telenor merger in Denmark

Brussels, 08/04/2015 (Agence Europe) - On Wednesday 8 April, the European Commission opened an in-depth investigation into the planned merger of Danish telecoms companies TeliaSonera AB and Telenor ASA to assess whether it would hamper competition.

The proposed transaction would combine the number two and number three operators in the mobile retail market, and would reduce the number of Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) in Denmark from four to three. It would create the largest player both in...