whats going on here?, page-9

500 million for the merger costs.they state there is cost savings from merging the two companies thus paying large amount of the 500 mil in the first year....vodaphone was in profit when merged and hutchison was very close to brekeven.i agree with the trading pool,any company 51% owned by parent has its trading issues....hutchison whompa dont mind selling assets if they get the right money..my question is what happens if telstra is forced to split by government..they are in the middle of a float selling a chinese asset at the moment so they will be more than cashed up.the synergy changes once split would they be allowed by asic to takeover vha and would vha be a good bolt on company for telstra....anyways we will find out soon enough on how well or not the merger has done...