As we have said all along, Vodafone only had to get the board of Kabel Deutschland onside and it was always going to win a one sided bidding battle for the Germany cable company’s hand, largely due to the automatic anti-trust land mines built into the bid from rival Liberty Global. Already there are potential hurdles that the German Cartel office could put in front of the Vodafone deal too, partly for the concentration of German broadband into fewer hands, and partly over the control this gives it in a Quad play, which might in turn affect the mobile market balance. At Faultline we believe that the deal will pass muster even at the over-fussy Bundeskartellamt (Cartel Office), which has…