No guest this week but Scott had to be dragged away from following the first day of the Ashes and the lovely weather to sit in a studio for your loosely telecoms-themed entertainment. The big news of the week was the official announcement of the proposed merger between Vodafone and Three in the UK, so they start with that. They move on to discuss the EU\u2019s increasingly strong position on \u2018high risk\u2019 telecoms vendors before concluding with their reflections on a recent event they attended that focused on private networks.