TalkTalk Business and ARO to borg into UK tech services giant
70,000 customers will join the collective, whose name and leader remain unknown
TalkTalk Business and UK technology services biz ARO plan to merge, creating what they say will be one of the country's largest communications and managed services providers.
The pair claim the combined organization will be "uniquely positioned" to serve as a single technology partner for British firms pursuing digital transformation. It will have annual revenue of about £200 million ($270 million) and a combined customer base of more than 70,000 companies.
Analyst firm Megabuyte noted that ARO, formerly known as Arrow, is the larger of the two businesses by earnings.
However, the vast majority of the combined customer base will comprise TalkTalk Business's small-business clients, with the remainder mainly ARO enterprise customers. Megabuyte expects fixed-line and mobile communications and connectivity to generate most of the combined revenue – about £130 million ($176 million) – with IT and cybersecurity...
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