{"id":1007005,"date":"2026-05-06T09:57:32","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T04:27:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1007005"},"modified":"2026-05-06T10:27:42","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T04:57:42","slug":"vodafone-buys-out-uk-mobile-partner-ck-hutchison-in-5-8-billion-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/06\/vodafone-buys-out-uk-mobile-partner-ck-hutchison-in-5-8-billion-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Vodafone buys out UK mobile partner CK Hutchison in $5.8 billion deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON: Vodafone has agreed to buy its partner CK Hutchison&#8217;s stake in VodafoneThree for 4.3 billion pounds ($5.8 billion), taking full ownership of Britain&#8217;s biggest mobile operator a year after it was created. VodafoneThree is currently owned 51% by Britain&#8217;s Vodafone Group and 49% \u200cby Hong Kong-based \u2060conglomerate CK \u2060Hutchison Group Telecom Holdings, which will sell the stake, the companies said on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>Shares of CK Hutchison were up more than 4%, hitting their highest level in over six years, while Vodafone stock rose 2% to the highest since August 2022. The joint venture combined Vodafone&#8217;s British unit with Hutchison&#8217;s Three, leapfrogging rivals BT&#8217;s EE and O2, owned by Telefonica and Liberty Global, to become market leader.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON: Vodafone has agreed to buy its partner CK Hutchison&#8217;s stake in VodafoneThree for 4.3 billion pounds ($5.8 billion), taking full ownership of Britain&#8217;s biggest mobile operator a year after it was created. VodafoneThree is currently owned 51% by Britain&#8217;s Vodafone Group and 49% \u200cby Hong Kong-based \u2060conglomerate CK \u2060Hutchison Group Telecom Holdings, which will sell the stake, the companies said on Tuesday. Shares of CK Hutchison were up more than 4%, hitting their highest level in over six years, while Vodafone stock rose 2% to the highest since August 2022. The joint venture combined Vodafone&#8217;s British unit with Hutchison&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1007005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1007005"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1007023,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007005\/revisions\/1007023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1007005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1007005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1007005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}