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Bte Merger Case
This essay will discuss and evaluate the EE limited (EE) and British Telecoms (BT) merger that was first discussed in early 2015 and was later approved in January 2016. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) in the UK was the regulator in charge of reviewing the merger between the two companies. The telecommunications market regulator Ofcom also created a report to help aid towards the decision that the CMA was going to make for the merger case. The total cost that BT would pay for the merger was £12.5bn which reflects on how big the mobile market is and the importance of the merger. Many competitors on the market were against the idea of the merger and claimed it would damage the competition in the market. The CMA did not have an easy
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