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Petition against the Vodafone & Three merger

I live in a place that is largely ignored by pretty much all carriers so this merger is my only hope of getting some sort of decent connectivity.

At the moment all I can get is a weak 4G signal from any of them, and coverage is extremely patchy. Speed tests routinely return single digit results.
 
I live in a place that is largely ignored by pretty much all carriers so this merger is my only hope of getting some sort of decent connectivity.

At the moment all I can get is a weak 4G signal from any of them, and coverage is extremely patchy. Speed tests routinely return single digit results.
How would that help you? The resulting entity from the merger will also ignore you.
 
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How would that help you? The resulting entity from the merger will also ignore you.
In fact, it is possible that it will become even worse, because if you now have a faint signal from Vodafone and Three (and all others), in the future the merged company might (for various reasons, financial, regulatory etc) shut down "duplicates" sites, so you'll end up with one less faint signal.
 
In fact, it is possible that it will become even worse, because if you now have a faint signal from Vodafone and Three (and all others), in the future the merged company might (for various reasons, financial, regulatory etc) shut down "duplicates" sites, so you'll end up with one less faint signal.
It did for some when Orange and T-Mobile merged.

We ended up with a quite a weak indoor signal due to a local Orange site being turned off.

Come to think of it, all the local Orange roadside masts were decommissioned.
 
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While I am not particularly keen on the Voda/Three merger, I don't think that any CEO would care about a petition, regardless of how many people sign it.

Presumably any petition would be more directed at government / OfCom / UK CMA / the media. You're right that the CEOs wouldn't care, but they're not the only ones with a say in the matter.
 
Yeah its aimed at getting the regulator's attention I expect.

I also agree that the merger is unlkely to help in that patchy area, there will almost certainly be shutdown of masts they consider to be redundant.
 
Presumably any petition would be more directed at government / OfCom / UK CMA / the media. You're right that the CEOs wouldn't care, but they're not the only ones with a say in the matter.
Yep, aimed at CMA, it's mentioned there, in smaller letters.
 
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If you all could promote this on social media, that'd be great. I don't have much presence there.
 
Hi folks,

Since gov.uk said their petitions can't be against businesses I've opened another one on change.org.

As with the gov.uk one we need 5 signatures before it goes live.

Please sign it and promote it online!

I'll neither promote or sign, sorry.

3 MNOs seems to be working fine elsewhere, 4 was an arbitrary number.
 
It's a long shot anyway. Yes, 3 mnos can work, but 4 is better and cheaper.
 
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