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Articles tagged with: Hutchison 3G and Hutchison Whampoa
Fitch Affirms Hutchison Whampoa With Stable Outlook
Debt ratings agency, Fitch ratings has affirmed Hutchison Whampoa's Long-term foreign currency Issuer Default Rating (IDR) at 'A-'. The Outlook remains Stable. At the same time, Fitch has affirmed Hutchison's Short-term IDR at 'F2' and its senior unsecured rating at 'A-'. more
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Hutchison Whampoa's first-half earns plunge 33 pct
Hong Kong conglomerate Hutchison Whampoa, run by billionaire Li Ka-shing, said Thursday its earnings tumbled 33 percent in the first half as its oil, ports and hotel businesses flagged amid the economic downturn. more
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BT Mulls a Return to the UK Mobile Market
The UK's dominant landline operator, British Telecom (BT) is reported to be considering a return to the mobile market in an effort to boost profits by taping the growing market for combined home broadband/mobile services. more
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UK Based Superdrug to Sell MVNO Top-Ups
UK based MVNO, Lebara Mobile says that it has signed a new partnership agreement with the high street retailer, Superdrug. Under the deal, Superdrug will sell Lebara Mobile airtime at its 915 stores across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland with immediate effect. more
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Hutchison Shows off First In-House Developed Mobile Phone
Hutchison Whampoa has shown off the first of its new in-house designed mobile phones, which will be sold under the INQ brandname. The INQ¹ (yes, with a tiny 1) has been designed to offer a tight integration with the Facebook social networking website, and will be available exclusively from the Hutchison 3G mobile networks. more
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T-Mobile in Talks with Hutchison 3G Over Network Sharing
T-Mobile is reported to be in talks with Hutchison 3G UK (3) which could lead to the two networks sharing their network infrastructure. The Financial Times, citing analysts says that the move could lead to a possible outright purchase of 3 by T-Mobile. There have been reports for some time now that Hutchison Whampoa is looking for a trade sale of its UK division. more
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Hutchison Whampoa Considering Sale of Italian 3G Operator
Hutchison 3G Italy is reported to be up for sale to a trade buyer, following a failed attempt to float the company on the Italian stock market a couple of years ago. The London Times newspaper reports that Hutchison Whampoa is understood to have sent out an information memorandum in the hope of unearthing potential bidders for the Italian division. The company has already been looking to sell its towers operation, by merging them with rival operator, Wind and floating the company - which could be worth around US$2.8 billion. more
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Hutchison's 3G Call May Connect at Last
Could this be the year Hong Kong conglomerate Hutchison Whampoa finally gets a payoff on its $25 billion bet on 3G mobile-phone technology? Based on the scant value the markets assign Hutchison's loss-making third-generation phone operations, investors aren't counting on it. But they may want to leave their phones on in case some good news breaks. more
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General Wireless has signed a contract with Hutchison 3G in Scandinavia, to deliver its eMMS solution for integrating PC-based e-mail with mobile text and multimedia messaging. In cooperation with General Wireless, the mobile operator 3 launched the 3PC Message service, enabling mobile multimedia messaging through the Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Outlook Express e-mail clients. The service is also available using a standalone Windows client software. The software can be downloaded from the 3 website at no cost - users are only charged for sending SMS and MMS messages. more
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Hutchison 3G Ireland 3 has announced the appointment of Robert Finnegan as managing director for 3 Ireland. Finnegan will report directly to 3 UK and Ireland CEO, Bob Fuller. Most recently, Finnegan was CEO of Sentrio Technologies, a hosted mobile resource solution company, where he was instrumental in building the business internationally. Prior to his time at Sentrio, he served as CEO of Nestle's European home and office water business. Finnegan has also held senior finance roles at Lyons Tetley and Procter and Gamble. more
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