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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 7697

13 April 2000
Contents Publication in full By article 14 / 48
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/competition
Go-ahead for Vodafone/Mannesmann merger as long as the new group sells Orange and opens up the network for three years

Brussels, 12/04/2000 (Agence Europe) - The European Commission has, under certain conditions, approved the merger between the British telecommunications giant Vodafone and German Mannesmann, which will create the world's largest mobile telephony group with 42 million customers, spread over twenty-five countries. In exchange, the parties have undertaken to part with the third largest mobile telecommunications company in the United Kingdom, Orange, and its subsidiaries. This arrangement should...

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