(Bloomberg) -- The Swiss government said it will review its majority ownership of Swisscom AG this year, after the company agreed to buy Vodafone Italia for €8 billion ($8.7 billion).

The review, which is independent of that transaction, will include questions relating to the privatization or the partial privatization of Swisscom, the government said Friday in a statement.

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