Telecom Accepted Milei's Terms to Merge with Rival Telefónica
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The Court of Defense of Competition (TDC) of Argentina has placed very demanding conditions to authorize the purchase of Telefónica Móviles Argentina by Telecom, the company controlled by the Clarín Group. The heaviest: Telefónica must transfer 6 million active mobile customers to an independent operator so that the concentration does not reduce to two the number of competitors with own network in the country. Without this structural remedy, the…
The Spanish multinational Telefónica has just seen how its exit from the Argentine market becomes a conditioned operation at the highest level. In the last few hours, Telecom Argentina finally accepted the demands imposed by President Javier Milei to approve the purchase of the local subsidiary. And the invoice is high: the creation of a third telecommunications company, which must be released from six million mobile customers and part of its in…
The purchase of Telefónica Argentina by Telecom will continue, but on one condition: the creation of a third telecommunications company that will have to be released from some 6 million mobile customers and part of its infrastructure. The company will abandon the judicial route and will look for a buyer for that new firm. Javier Milei’s government imposed restrictions to avoid a concentration of the market, in a dispute that faced Casa Rosada ag…
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Telecom will have to divest itself of 6 million mobile phone customers and part of its participation in radio spectrum and fixed internet. Thus, the Clarín Group will concentrate 50% of the telecommunications market. The Competition Tribunal yesterday approved the purchase of Telefónica by Telecom, [...] Entry Under conditions, the government authorized the merger of Telecom and Telefónica was first published in Pausa.
The national government will allow Telefónica Argentina to be bought by Telecom, although it imposed a number of divestment obligations as a condition for the operation to take place. The decision puts an end to a long process that included a preventive suspension, judicial decisions and objections from different agencies. According to La Nación and Chequeado, the resolution was taken by the National Competition Authority (ANC), which justified …
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