Vodafone putting final touches on deal with Three UK - report

Vodafone is reportedly putting final touches on a deal with Three UK to create Britain’s largest mobile operator and may announce details of the tie-up as soon as this month.

According to Bloomberg, Vodafone and Three UK’s owner, CK Hutchison Holdings, are working through the last details of the structure of the deal, and ways to address potential antitrust issues surrounding it.

Vodafone and Three UK’s parent CK Hutchison confirmed in October that they were in talks to merge their UK businesses.