Strand Consult has analyzed 4-3 mobile mergers for many years across the world. We have described the cases that the EU’s DG Competition has rejected and the cases that have been approved outside the EU. Strand Consult has observed that competition authorities have limited understanding of the impact of technological development on competition in the telecommunications world.
Strand Consult’s research project “Why four to three mobile mergers fail” offers new research and powerful facts about mobile industry consolidation in USA, EU, and around the world. Strand Consult’s goal is to lift the level of merger review in quantitative analysis, improve the credibility and transparency of antitrust decisions, and protect agencies from regulatory capture. Companies need to be smarter in their consolidation strategies; antitrust authorities need to improve their toolsets and measurement techniques; and policymakers need to modernize the standard of review.
This is Strand Consult’s 20th year of coverage of the Mobile World Congress (MWC). This pre Research Note covers the event’s themes and keynotes and offers critical reflections of the…
News just broke that Vodafone and 3UK are considering a 4 to 3 merger in the United Kingdom. According to Barclay’s analysis, Vodafone will take 51% of the combined company;…
Mobile industry consolidation and 4 to 3 mergers receives increasing attention. It is a natural development in an industry in which scale is important and which prices continue to fall…
This morning Norway’s Lyse /Altibox announced it would acquire mobile operator ICE. Lyse owns Altibox and partners with 33 fiber players, most being energy companies with fiber broadband networks to…
Strand Consult has followed the mobile telecom industry for more than 25 years and has published predictions for the last 21. See the collection. This research note reviews the highs…
Many countries in Asia have a history of very competitive mobile markets and very low prices. This is immediately obvious on the streets of Bangkok, Hong Kong or Bangalore. Mobile…
Consolidation is a key topic in the mobile industry. With successive levels of technology, players enter, exit, and evolve in the market. Strand Consult has studied this process for some…
This report reveals what needs to be done to consolidate the telecommunications market. Around the world, telecom operators have had difficulty to consolidate the telecommunications market, especially when reducing the…
Strand Consult has followed the mobile telecom industry for 25 years and has published predictions for the last 20. See the collection here. This note reviews the highs and lows…
There are two critical debates in the telecom industry. One is about mobile market consolidation, a market in which Deutsche Telecom, Vodafone, Telenor, Telefonica, and Orange describe as the need…
Strand Consult has analyzed 4-3 mergers for many years. We have described the cases that the EU’s DG Competition has rejected and the cases that have been approved outside the EU. Strand…
Strand Consult has analyzed consolidation in the mobile industry beginning in year 2000. Our first report appeared in 2002 describing the process in South Korea going from 5 to 3…
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