Vodafone has completed its take over of Liberty Global’s cable operations in Germany, Hungary, Romania and the Czech Republic, boosting its pay-TV business.
The two companies have slightly differed over the value of the deal, with Vodafone citing €18.4 billion, while Liberty Global focused on the deal’s enterprise value of approximately €19.0 billion.
Vodafone said the deal makes it “Europe’s leading converged operator, with 116.3 million mobile customers, 24.2 million broadband customers and 22.1 million TV customers across 13 European countries.”