{"id":884592,"date":"2024-12-06T07:09:10","date_gmt":"2024-12-06T01:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=884592"},"modified":"2024-12-06T07:14:42","modified_gmt":"2024-12-06T01:44:42","slug":"vodafone-three-merger-approval-marks-uks-shift-to-prioritise-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/12\/06\/vodafone-three-merger-approval-marks-uks-shift-to-prioritise-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"Vodafone-Three merger approval marks UK&#8217;s shift to prioritise growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Britain&#8217;s decision to allow two of its four mobile networks to merge is the first big sign that regulators have taken on board the government&#8217;s wish for them to prioritise economic growth and infrastructure investment over lower consumer prices. <\/p>\n<p>The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) antitrust regulator cleared the $19 billion Vodafone-Three UK deal on Thursday after it accepted the companies&#8217; argument that better networks would drive competition and be good for the economy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britain&#8217;s decision to allow two of its four mobile networks to merge is the first big sign that regulators have taken on board the government&#8217;s wish for them to prioritise economic growth and infrastructure investment over lower consumer prices. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) antitrust regulator cleared the $19 billion Vodafone-Three UK deal on Thursday after it accepted the companies&#8217; argument that better networks would drive competition and be good for the economy.<\/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":[9,4,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-884592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-telecom-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884592","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=884592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=884592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=884592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=884592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}