{"id":844801,"date":"2024-08-16T09:40:37","date_gmt":"2024-08-16T04:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=844801"},"modified":"2024-08-16T09:40:37","modified_gmt":"2024-08-16T04:10:37","slug":"hutchisons-three-uk-says-operating-loss-shows-need-for-vodafone-merger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/08\/16\/hutchisons-three-uk-says-operating-loss-shows-need-for-vodafone-merger\/","title":{"rendered":"Hutchison&#8217;s Three UK says operating loss shows need for Vodafone merger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON: CK Hutchison&#8217;s Three UK reported a first-half operating loss of 30 million pounds ($39 million) and continued negative cash flow, which it said showed the need for it to merge with larger rival Vodafone to invest in a better combined network.<\/p>\n<p>Britain&#8217;s competition regulator is scrutinising the proposed tie up between the country&#8217;s third and fourth largest mobile networks after it raised concerns that the $19 billion deal announced last year could result in higher prices for consumers. It will report in December.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON: CK Hutchison&#8217;s Three UK reported a first-half operating loss of 30 million pounds ($39 million) and continued negative cash flow, which it said showed the need for it to merge with larger rival Vodafone to invest in a better combined network. Britain&#8217;s competition regulator is scrutinising the proposed tie up between the country&#8217;s third and fourth largest mobile networks after it raised concerns that the $19 billion deal announced last year could result in higher prices for consumers. It will report in December.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"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-844801","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\/844801","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=844801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=844801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=844801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=844801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}