UK Consumers could benefit from Orange T-Mobile Merger

It has been suggested that the decision taken by the European Commission to show the green light to the merger proposal between UK mobile broadband providers T-Mobile and Orange could prove to be beneficial to the internet users in the United Kingdom.

As a matter of fact, the European Commission had earlier this week cleared the merger move between the mobile operators after they had agreed to yield to certain concessions that particularly stood to safeguard the reasonable interests of the smallest mobile operator in the UK, 3 Mobile Broadband.

This, nevertheless is not at all a minor compromise from the two leading mobile broadband providers operating in the UK Orange and T-Mobile, as it would ensure that the ISPs shed more than 15 MHz of the 60MHz total spectrum belonging to the 1800MHz band, owned by the entity at the culmination of the merger.

According to the chairperson of the Communications Consumer Panel, Anna Bradley’s comments on the EU decision, giving clearance to the merger at such an early stage could yield advantages. She added that they wanted to see the benefits from innovations, low prices and choice, which resulted from a mobile market so competitive that have been enjoyed by the UK mobile broadband consumers to be continued.

However, there is someone that is not satisfied with the merger approval and that is the 3 UK CEO Kevin Russel who warned that key competition problems would be raised by the merger, as it would cut the number of mobile operators in the country from five to four.