Hutchison Launches Vietnam Mobile Service

HONG KONG -(Dow Jones)- Hutchison Telecommunications International said Monday it has launched a nationwide second-generation mobile phone service in Vietnam.

Its Vietnam operation, HT Mobile, also has the capability to provide third-generation mobile services using the CDMA2000 standard. It has already launched a mobile broadband service in some key Vietnamese cities, company spokeswoman Mickey Shiu said.

HTIL, a telecom operator that focuses on emerging markets, is a unit of Hong Kong tycoon Li Ka-shing's Hutchison Whampoa.

HTIL has second-generation mobile-phone operations in Hong Kong, India, Thailand, Israel, Macau, Sri Lanka and Ghana, and 3G operations in Israel and Hong Kong. It also has a fixed-line business in Hong Kong.

-By Ernest Kong, Dow Jones Newswires; 852-2802-7002; ernest.kong@dowjones.com

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Posted to the site on 15th January 2007