O2 and Three as UK mobile phone company was purchase

recently, Telefonica, which owns O2, has agreed to sell it to Hong Kong-based Hutchison Whampoa, for $10.2bn (£6.7bn).

It would create the UK's largest mobile company with a 40% market share.and apparently, this deal mostly affects UK consumers.The CMA said its initial view was that the deal threatened to "affect significantly competition" in both the retail and wholesale mobile markets.In one hand this is just a start for the oversea company plan to buy location company. obviously, when the company become less in the market, which survive will get a better environment , but focus on a long term , UK market will have a wave never happens before, because the company from oversea have more strongly power to make a influence.

At the same time, The EC has recently examined mergers in Ireland and Germany, both of which were approved, and another in Denmark.The Danish deal was abandoned because the two operators decided the remedies needed to win approval for the deal would be too harsh.
Mr Barford said there would be "significant remedies involved" if the Three/O2 deal is to be approved.

Regulators could decide that despite reducing competition in the short term, having three strong mobile operators might be better in the longer term.

Both O2 and Three lack large amounts of mobile spectrum needed to offer fast mobile internet - unlike EE and Vodafone, Mr Barford said.