The purchase will add around 40,000 mobile customers and about 300,000 fixed broadband customers, or roughly 8 percent market share, to Vodafone-Panafon Hellenic Telecommunications Co's network, the British telecoms group said in a statement.

CYTA Hellas is the Greek unit of Cyprus Telecommunications Authority.

(Reporting by Hanna Paul in Bengaluru; editing by Alexander Smith)