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UK: Vodafone under pressure to consider mega-merger

By  |  May 25, 2015

Vodafone is coming under pressure from shareholders to push ahead with a rumoured merger with the cable operator, Liberty Global.

A number of major shareholders are said to be backing the merger, which would be valued at around £120 billion, and substantially boost Vodafone’s quad-play capabilities across Europe.

If a deal were to be announced, it would likely see Vodafone sell some of its other operations to fund the merger, with subsidiaries in Turkey and South Africa top of the potential sales list.

Vodafone has long indicated that a combination of its mobile networks with Liberty’s cable assets would make sense.

 

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