Voda users have to fall back to 2G in some places after 3G switchoff, docs claim
Vodafone and Three UK are desperately trying to convince Britain's competition regulator to approve their merger, going so far as to denigrate their own network services - at least in some regions - as outdated.It raised two major concerns: that consolidation would result in increased prices for users, and the post-merger company might not have an incentive to follow through on its proposed investment program to deliver network upgrades.
The mobile operators are not the only ones to employ tangled or questionable arguments in an attempt to fox the regulators. Last month, Amazon claimed its AWS cloud platform isfrom customers moving workloads back on-premises. This came as part of its response to the CMA's probe into whether the big cloud players are limiting UK customers' choice in the local cloud market.
"It is possible that, absent the Transaction, these scaled benefits would never be realised in the UK," the document states."This is due to the lack of investment competition that exists in the UK today, with BTEE and VMO2 generating the lion's share of mobile industry cashflows and profits, and being the only parties with the scale to invest what would be required to enable high-capacity Advanced 5G," the pair claim.
Possible retail customer protections might extend to a freeze on price increases and require the networks to maintain certain levels of service. Last week VodaThree pledged to maintain social tariffs at £10 or below for at least two years after the merger.Ignore politics of whitebox radio: Mix and match OpenRAN tech will be 10% of market in 2025, claims analyst
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