{"id":377131,"date":"2010-03-01T19:35:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-02T00:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wmpoweruser.com\/?p=13844"},"modified":"2010-03-01T19:35:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-02T00:35:00","slug":"oranget-mobile-merger-allowed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/377131","title":{"rendered":"Orange\/T-Mobile merger allowed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"tweetmeme_button\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/api.tweetmeme.com\/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwmpoweruser.com%2F%3Fp%3D13844\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/api.tweetmeme.com\/imagebutton.gif?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwmpoweruser.com%2F%3Fp%3D13844&amp;source=WMPoweruser&amp;style=normal&amp;service=bit.ly\" height=\"61\" width=\"50\" \/><br \/>\n\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Orange logo\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/wmpoweruser.com\/l3v5y\/Orange.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Whilst this may only affect a small proportion of our readers, it is definitely of interest to those based in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>The Office of Fair Trading had previously paused the merger of T-Mobile and Orange, wanting time to investigate the deal. They have now withdrawn that, and allowed the merger to take place.<\/p>\n<p>T-Mobile Orange have had to give up a quarter of the 1800MHz bands they own (30MHz of 120MHz) freeing up some space for potential 3G or LTE.<\/p>\n<p>This now leaves the UK with a dominant (and as yet unnamed) mobile operator (about 36% of the market) whilst Vodafone and O2 have 27% and 25% respectively.<\/p>\n<p>I for one hope we\u2019ll see better data plans on Orange (500MB is not Unlimited!) but maybe with the majority share we\u2019ll see some price rises.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think of this merger? Anyone still using T-Mobile or Orange with a smartphone?<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2010\/03\/01\/t_orange_approved\/\">The Register<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whilst this may only affect a small proportion of our readers, it is definitely of interest to those based in the UK. The Office of Fair Trading had previously paused the merger of T-Mobile and Orange, wanting time to investigate the deal. They have now withdrawn that, and allowed the merger to take place. T-Mobile [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1459,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-377131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1459"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}