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| Formerly | Hutchison Telecommunications International | ||||||||||||
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| Company type | Division | ||||||||||||
| Headquarters | Hong Kong | ||||||||||||
Area served | Indonesia Sri Lanka Vietnam | ||||||||||||
| Products | Mobile andfixed line telecommunications | ||||||||||||
| Parent | CK Hutchison Holdings | ||||||||||||
| Chinese name | |||||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 和記亞洲電訊集團 | ||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 和记亚洲电讯集团 | ||||||||||||
| Jyutping | wo4 gei3 ngaa3 zau1 din6 seon3 zaap6 tyun4 | ||||||||||||
| CantoneseYale | wòh gei nga jāu dihn seun jaahp tyùhn | ||||||||||||
| Hanyu Pinyin | Héjì yàzhōu diànxùn jítuán | ||||||||||||
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| short name | |||||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 和電亞洲 | ||||||||||||
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| Hutchison Telecommunications International Limited | |||||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 和記電訊國際有限公司 | ||||||||||||
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| former short name | |||||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 和電國際 | ||||||||||||
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| Website | www | ||||||||||||
Hutchison Asia Telecom Group orHAT, is a division of Hong Kong-basedmultinational conglomerateCK Hutchison Holdings.[1] The division provides telecommunications services to several Asian countries. The division was formerly incorporated asHutchison Telecommunications International Limited, known asHutchison Telecom orHTIL in short. Itwas[clarification needed] an offshore company in theCayman Islands and a listed company in theStock Exchange of Hong Kong. It operatesGSM,3G and4G mobile telecommunications services in Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Vietnam under brands3,Hutch andVietnamobile.
Hutchison Telecommunications International was formerly a listed company with a primary listing on the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong (former stock code: 2332) andAmerican depositary shares quoted on theNew York Stock Exchange. In May 2010, Hutchison Telecom became a fully owned subsidiary ofHutchison Whampoa and its shares were delisted.[2][3] In 2009, Hutchison Telecom also spun off part of their assets as a separate listed companyHutchison Telecommunications Hong Kong Holdings, which including 3 Hong Kong andHutchison Global Communications.
In 1999 and 2000, Hutchison Telecom sold itsOrange andVoiceStream interests and re-invested the greater part of the proceeds to develop its global third-generation (3G) mobile broadband telecommunications business, based on the EuropeanUMTS (W-CDMA) 3G standard.[citation needed]
In early 2007, Hutchison Telecom made headlines by selling its 67% interest in the Indian mobile phone networkHutch Essar toVodafone forUS$13.1 billion (of which $2 billion was debt).[citation needed]
In December 2007, minority shareholder of Hutchison Telecommunications International (HTIL),Orascom Telecom, sold the 14.2% stake of HTIL, to HTIL's parent companyHutchison Whampoa, for HK$7.5 billion (approx. US$962 million).[4] Orascom also reduced the stake from 19.3% to 16.3%, through a private placement of shares to the market in October 2007.[5]
In 2009, Hutchison sold its controlling stake inOrange Israel toScailex Corporation. Thus it ended using the Orange brand for providing mobile services.[citation needed]
In 2009, itspun offHutchison Telecommunications Hong Kong Holdings (stock code: 215) to be listed on the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong.[6]
In 2010, the company was privatized.
In July 2005, Hutchison Telecom acquired a 60% equity stake in PT Hutchison 3 Indonesia ("H3I", formerly known as PT Hutchison CP Telecommunications ("Hutchison CP Telecom" or "HCPT"), PT Cyber Access Communication and PT Telindo Inti Nusa) from the Charoen Pokphand Group Indonesia. In 2006, H3I announced that it retainedSiemens to design, build and operate state-of-the-art 2G and 3G nationwide wireless networks. H3I launched its commercial services on 29 March 2007 under the 3 brand.
Indonesia is an extremely attractive wireless market with a sizable population and a relatively low mobile penetration rate. It is an excellent example of Hutchison Telecom's vision and strategy in achieving growth in emerging markets.
At the end of September 2009, H3I's customer base grew to approximately 7.3 million.
In September 2021, it was announced that the latter company would be merged withOoredoo'sIndosat (who operates IM3 Ooredoo networks) to form Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison (IOH) and was closed the merger on 4 January 2022.
The company'sSri Lankan operation, commonly known asHutch.CK Hutchison Holdings Limited owns 85% controlling stake of the company while the rest is held byEmirates Telecommunication Group Company PJSC. Initially it was called as "CallLink" and was the second mobile operator in Sri Lanka. Hutchison acquired its services in 1998 with the aim of being a nationwide operator inSri Lanka. As of September 2018[update], Hutch has a network coverage of approximately 90% of the entire island. Hutchannounced that they acquiredEtisalat on 30 November 2018.
Hutch Sri Lanka operates aGSM/EDGE supported network using 900 / 1800 MHz. In 2012 the company launchedHSPA+ services using 2100 MHz.[7] The company launched4G via 1800 MHz B3 from 2018[8] and 900 MHz B8 from 2019.
In July 2004, Hutchison Telecommunications (Vietnam) S.à r.l. ("Hutchison Telecom Vietnam"), a wholly owned subsidiary of Hutchison Telecom, entered into a business cooperation contract with Hanoi Telecom Joint Stock Company. In February 2005, Hutchison Telecom was granted an investment licence by the government for the project and in January 2007, launched CDMA service under the brand HT Mobile.
While they offered a superior network, the market uptake was greatly hampered by the lack of affordable CDMA handsets, in particular, those with the Vietnamese language option, coupled with the trend of leading manufacturers to scale back handset development for this market.
On 8 March 2008 they received government approval to convert from CDMA technology to GSM. After the successful conversion, it launched GSM services in April 2009 under the new brand "Vietnamobile". The brand surpassed the one million customer mark within six months of launch, mostly in the prepaid segment.
Vietnamobile offers some of the highest growth potential in the region.
Hutchison Essar Limited started operations under the brand name "Orange" in Mumbai. In other states it was marketed under "Hutch" brand. It was then changed to "Hutch" nationwide when they expanded rapidly to become the third largest mobile service provider in India and furthered its market share through the acquisition of BPL, Fascel, Command & Aircel Digilink. On 31 March 2007Hutchison Essar Limited (in Hutch Essar) sold its 67.1% stake toVodafone.
Even after selling theOrange plc toMannesmann AG in February 1999,[9][non-primary source needed] Hutchison continued to use Orange brand inIsrael.[citation needed] Recently[when?] they have sold the controlling stake in this venture toScailex Corporation. Thus it ends the story of Orange brand associated with Hutchison Telecom. Though Scailex Corp are still using this[clarification needed] brand for their Operations.
In 2000, Hutchison Telecom andCAT Telecom Public Company Limited ("CAT Telecom") entered into a joint venture by establishing Hutchison CAT Wireless MultiMedia Ltd. ("Hutchison CAT") to provide exclusive marketing services for CAT Telecom'sCDMA mobile telecommunications in 25 provinces located in theBangkok Metropolitan Area and in central, east coast and west coast regions ofThailand.
In 2003, Hutchison CAT launched marketing services for CAT Telecom's CDMA mobile services under the brand Hutch, providing high speed voice and data wireless service to customers.
In 2013 Hutch Thailand has ended its CDMA services.[citation needed]
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