Some analysts are saying that the regulators may insist on a Virgin split:
"Regulators will most likely focus on the two firms’ partnerships, the Ovum analysts said. “Regulators will have to look at the Virgin Mobile wholesale deal with T-Mobile and T-Mobile’s network-sharing deal with 3,” Hartley and Obiodu said.
“We expect the Virgin Mobile deal to be decoupled – Orange/T-Mobile tacitly suggested this by separating out Virgin Mobile’s customers in their subscriber data,” they added."
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