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Vodafone deal

Wednesday 23 June 1999 00:02 BST
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VODAFONE GROUP's $77bn purchase of AirTouch Communications won US Federal Communications Commission approval, an agency spokeswoman said.

The UK's Vodafone announced in January it would buy San Francisco-based AirTouch, the number one US cellular phone company, creating the world's largest wireless company. Vodafone and AirTouch shareholders have already approved the transaction.

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