"Still believe that part of the getting it right message involves a merger between these two..."
That may be so as a further excuse for not making progress by the governments. However the idea of merger being necessary is pure bs. What is actually needed is cooperation between the companies of the Ring. AND for all we know that is exactly what is going on.

However many companies are involved in the Ring as long as they are getting along with each other there should be no impediment to progress and to imply difficulties is just making excuses by the incompetent and trying to off set the blame onto others.

This has been a proclamation from the peanut gallery ( i.e. the cheap seats lol), Ed.