France Telecom's Orange had aimed to acquire T-Mobile UK outright, but was forced to settle for a merger of equals in order to head off rival bids, Total Telecom learnt this week.
Orange and T-Mobile announced their U.K. tie-up in September after months of speculation over the future of Deutsche
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