Inaki Berroeta walked into Vodafone Hutchison Australia's North Sydney head office at 6am on Thursday to find his colleague Trent Czinner, with a hoodie over his head, just waking up.
Only two hours earlier Vodafone's general counsel had crossed the final t and dotted the final i with his counterpart at TPG Telecom Tony Moffat and their lawyers Norton Rose Fulbright and Herbert Smith Freehills, on a $15 billion transformational deal to bring together Australia's No.3 mobile network operator and No.2 broadband player.
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