Nor do you. There's just too much that's unknown for you to be making declarative statements about what is or isn't going away soon.
Naturally. That's why I didn't understand the connection that you were trying to make to this recently announced roaming agreement.
And while the O2 Ireland sale may have been consummated in Q4 last year, the acquisition was announced back in the middle of 2013. I doubt that Hutchinson Whampoa would've appreciated Telefonica making a commitment for O2 Ireland while they were in the middle of buying it. On the hand, the deal for O2 UK was made in January of this year. Now as you've already opined in regards to the Sprint-Telefonica roaming agreement:
So it seems quite possible that they were already deep in negotiations well before the buyout for O2 UK occurred. You're trying to pull from disparate scenarios to prove a point, but in actuality the stark differences in the timing of the O2 Ireland & O2 Slovakia+Czech Republic deals makes it difficult, if not impossible, to determine what will happen in this situation.
At the end of the day, Que Sera, Sera.