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Articles tagged with: Hutchison Telecom and Hutchison
Hong Kong Operator Launches Visual Voicemail Service
Comverse has announced that 3 Hong Kong, the mobile operation of Hutchison Telecom Hong Kong, has launched Hong Kong's first visual voicemail service. Instead of dialing in for voice messages, users can see information about each voicemail in a message inbox, such as sender, time of call and message length and then click and listen to any message. Users also can delete and reply any message. more
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Hutchison Telecom Seeking Loan Following Spin-Off
Hutchison Telecom is reported to be in talks to secure a HK$5.5 billion (US$710 million) loan to be injected into the company when it is spun off from its parent, Hutchison Whampoa. Sources told the South China Morning Post that at least five lenders had shown "strong interest" in joining the loan because of their good relationship with the borrower more
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New GSM Network to Launch in Vietnam
Hutchison Telecom has announced that its Vietnamese operation, Vietnamobile will launch its GSM services tomorrow ( 9th April). Vietnamobile, the partnership between Hutchison Telecom and Hanoi Telecom Joint Stock Company, will launch its service over its GSM network with footprint present at 64 provinces in Vietnam. more
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Hutchison Telecom Confirms Spin-Off Plans for Hong Kong Holdings
Hong Kong based Hutchison Telecom has reported a 16% rise in full-year revenues to HK$24 billion (US$3.1 billion) and an increase of 16.8% in EBITDA to HK$6.14 billion (US$791 million). Net income dropped precipitously to HK$1.88 billion (US$242 million) from the extraordinary HK66.8 billion a year ago - which was largely due to the one-off gain from the sale of its Indian interests to Vodafone. more
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Vodafone Raising Funds for India's 3G Auction
Vodafone Essar is reported to be currently trying to raise US$2 billion as a bridging loan to finance its bids in the country's delayed 3G and WiMAX auctions. The current reserve price for the 3G auction is US$412 million to cover all the available circles - although the auction has been delayed as the Finance Ministry is battling to double the reserve to at least US$824 million. more
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Asian Operators Agree to Improved Roaming for BlackBerry Users
The Asian mobile operators group, Conexus Mobile Alliance has announced the start of the regional rollout of a mobile data roaming plan for BlackBerry smartphones among Alliance members. The new plan offers a high mobile data access ceiling in most countries to cater to the data usage needs of frequent mobile roamers. more
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Hutchison Telecom Adds Over 11 Million Subscribers in Q3
Hutchison Telecom has reported that during the 3rd quarter of this year, it maintained growth in a quarter where overall economic conditions were turbulent. Its total user base grew to 11.2 million with strong contribution from Indonesian operations which grew 12.5% quarterly. Established markets Hong Kong and Israel recorded significant growth in 3G customers and continued to report progress in all other operational parameters. more
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NeuStar Delivers Unified Mobile IM Service to Hong Kong Operator
Hutchison Telecom Hong Kong has ordered a mobile instant messaging platform from NeuStar, to enable its customers to have access to Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger and the 3 Community from one central application. Hutchison Telecom trades under the Three brandname. more
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Hutchison Telecom Profts Jump on Indonesian One-Off Sales
Hutchison Telecom has reported a 22% rise in turnover for the first half of this year, to HK$11.8 billion (US$1.51 billion) compared with the same period last year. The Group's mobile customer base grew 68% in the past 12 months to 11.1 million, with a significant percentage of the increase comes from Indonesia. Hutchison Telecom also said that it continued to register a healthy growth of 3G customers in Israel, Hong Kong and Macau. more
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Hutchison Telecom Names a New Chief Financial Officer
Hutchison Telecom has announced that Mr Tim Pennington has given notice of his resignation as Chief Financial Officer and will step down at the end of August to return to the UK. more
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