UK provisionally greenlights Viasat and Inmarsat’s $7.3B pointing to competition from Starlink

The U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has provisionally cleared the proposed $7.3 billion merger between London-based satellite company Inmarsat and its U.S. rival Viasat.
The two companies, which offer myriad satellite services spanning everything from in-flight Wi-Fi to military use-cases, first announced their merger plans back in November, 2021. However, given the size and nature of the deal, it has faced significant scrutiny, particularly in Europe.
Indeed, today’s news comes some five months after the CMA first confirmed plans to probe the deal on competition gro

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