{"id":9333,"date":"2015-05-24T08:18:33","date_gmt":"2015-05-24T07:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=9333"},"modified":"2015-05-24T08:19:04","modified_gmt":"2015-05-24T07:19:04","slug":"vodafone-moots-monster-120bn-merger-with-virgin-media-uk-parent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2015\/05\/vodafone-moots-monster-120bn-merger-with-virgin-media-uk-parent.html","title":{"rendered":"Vodafone Moot Monster \u00a3120bn Merger with Virgin Media UK Parent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/vodafoneuk\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Vodafone<\/a>&#8217;s most significant shareholders, each with stakes worth billions of pounds, are putting pressure on the mobile giant to enter into a massive \u00a3120 billion merger deal with Liberty Global, the world spanning cable operator behind <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/vm\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Virgin Media<\/a> in the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Such a deal, which could require <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/vodafoneuk\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Vodafone<\/a> to sell off their non-European businesses (e.g. India, Turkey and South Africa) for around \u00a330bn and then merge their EU business with Liberty Global, would give the mobile giant access to a massive fixed line network and enable it to better compete with major telecoms operators like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/britishtelecom\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">BT<\/a>. The latter assumes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/britishtelecom\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">BT<\/a>&#8217;s \u00a312.5bn purchase of mobile operator <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/eebroadband\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">EE<\/a> is eventually given the regulatory all clear by March 2016.<\/p>\n<p>The speculation follows comments made by US billionaire <strong>John Malone<\/strong>, who last week signalled that he might be interested in a merger with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/vodafoneuk\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Vodafone<\/a>&#8217;s EU businesses and even suggested they would be a &#8220;<em>great fit<\/em>&#8220;. But such a deal would take a long time to fully complete and might face some complex regulatory hurdles in different markets.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bq1\"><p><strong>John Malone, Chairman of Liberty Global, said:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>We\u2019ve looked at that from our side and there would be very substantial synergies if we could find a way to work together or combine the companies with respect to western Europe.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Is there a great fit in Germany? Absolutely. Is there a great fit in the U.K.? Absolutely. Is there a great fit in Holland? Absolutely. There\u2019s the promise of creating enormous shareholder value if we could work it out<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Meanwhile Vodafone&#8217;s CEO, <strong>Vittorio Colao<\/strong>, responded by saying that if such a deal could be found to &#8220;<em>make sense<\/em>&#8221; then they would consider it. Obviously some of Vodafone&#8217;s key shareholders are now so keen that they might well be attempting to use their weight in order to force the operator\u2019s board to at least review the idea.<\/p>\n<p>Mind you it wouldn&#8217;t be the first time that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/vm\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Virgin Media<\/a> or parent Liberty Global have been loosely linked with Vodafone and a similar story surfaced in September 2014 (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2014\/09\/vodafone-eyes-virgin-medias-liberty-global-eu-clears-bskyb-acquisitions.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>), but so far little has happened. The difference this time is that Vodafone&#8217;s shareholders are starting to push with their pockets and that&#8217;s a difficult signal to ignore.<\/p>\n<p>But such a deal might also unnerved rival mobile operators, specifically <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/o2uk\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">O2<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/threeuk\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Three UK<\/a> that over the next year could complete their own merger. Neither operator has a strong independent fixed line telecoms and broadband base, which would put them at a distinct disadvantage against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/britishtelecom\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">BT<\/a> + <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/eebroadband\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">EE<\/a> and Vodafone + <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/vm\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Virgin Media<\/a> (Liberty Global) heavyweights.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time approximately one quarter of Vodafone&#8217;s sales come from its global corporate networks, which would be hurt if the operator was forced to sell off their non-EU businesses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of Vodafone&#8217;s most significant shareholders, each with stakes worth billions of pounds, are putting pressure on the mobile giant to enter into a massive \u00a3120 billion merger deal with Liberty Global, the world spanning cable operator behind Virgin Media in the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[472,475,96],"class_list":["post-9333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uk_isp_news","tag-business","tag-virgin-media","tag-vodafone"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - 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