What's the Story? The ripple effect of the Orange and Másmóvil merger

Light Reading's Tereza Krasova provides an update on the recently approved merger between Orange and Másmóvil in Spain. The deal is valued at €18.6 billion (US$20.1 billion).

During the podcast, we discuss competition concerns over the merger and the remedies proposed by the European Commission (EC) to address them. One of the solutions means Spain will remain a four-operator market because Digi will buy Másmóvil's spectrum to build its own network.

"The merged Orange/Másmóvil entity will become the largest operator in Spain in terms of customer numbers, with Orange saying they will jointly serve over 30 million mobile customers and more than 7.3 million fixed clients," according to Tereza. 

She also explains what this could mean for future mergers of service providers in other European countries.  

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