Vodafone and Hutchison offer price pledge to answer UK’s merger concerns

Vodafone and Hutchison’s Three UK said they would commit to keep prices low on their value brand for two years and give better access to wholesale operators in a final push to get their $19 billion British merger over the line.

Britain’s antitrust regulator, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), is due to make its decision on the tie-up between the two mobile operators by Dec. 7 after it expressed concerns about its impact on consumers earlier this month.