Spain’s Telefonica will acquire control of Brazil’s largest cell phone operator, Vivo, in a newly sweetened ?7.5 billion ($9.77 billion) deal with Portugal Telecom, the companies said Wednesday.

Telefonica and PT said their boards had approved the transaction, which has been in the works for months and was initially vetoed by the Portuguese government.

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