The UK’s Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has cleared the proposed joint venture between the local subsidiaries of Spain’s Telefonica and mobile giant Vodafone Group under which the pair will strengthen their network partnership. As noted in TeleGeography’s GlobalComms Database, June 2012 saw the announcement that the two groups’ subsidiaries – O2 UK and Vodafone UK – would jointly operate and manage a single network grid running two competing mobile voice and internet networks, with both retaining complete control over their own wireless spectrum, intelligent core networks and customer data. In order to facilitate the project, a new 50/50 joint venture company is to be created via the consolidation of the existing basic network infrastructure of each cellco, including towers and masts; upon completion both operators should have access to a single grid comprising around 18,500 masts, a figure that reportedly represents an increase of more than 40% for each of them.
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OVETEL Telefonica/Vodafone UK network merger given OFT approval
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