Vodafone Australia merges with TPG to take on Telstra and Optus

Vodafone Hutchison Australia has agreed a deal to merge with broadband provider TPG Telecom to create a telecommunications company to take on Telstra and Optus.
The $15bn merger will bring together Vodafone’s mobile network and almost six million mobile customers with TPG’s extensive fixed-line broadband services which boasts 1.9 million residential subscribers as well as corporate, government and business customers.
The merger will provide “scale and financial strength to comp