Verizon Price Gap: $30 Billion

Updated April 25, 2013 7:21 p.m. ET

Verizon Communications Inc. is eager to buy Vodafone Group PLC out of their massive mobile-phone joint venture—but it will have to get over a $30 billion hurdle.

That amount is roughly the difference between what people on either side of the potential deal say Vodafone's 45% stake in the biggest U.S. mobile operator, Verizon Wireless, is...

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