Asia Pacific

Australia
Hong Kong
India
Thailand
Sri Lanka

Australia
Hutchison Telecommunications (Australia) (57.82% interest) ("HTA") is leading the introduction of innovative wireless services in the Australian mobile market. Its principal activities include; the operation of its Orange Mobile and Paging businesses as the provider of choice for value based voice and messaging services, and pioneering the introduction of content-rich mobile multimedia services under the global brand 3.

The Orange mobile communications business provides customers with strong value based voice and messaging services. The business has three core products: Orange mobile, Orange Messaging and Orange Information Services.

The 3G business is operated under a subsidiary of HTA, Hutchison 3G Australia in which Telecom Corporation of New Zealand has a 19.9% stake. Hutchison 3G Australia is well positioned to be Australia's first mover in the exciting new field of 3G services. Hutchison 3G Australia's goal is to deliver a new experience in information, entertainment and communications (for more, please visit website http://www.hutchison.com.au/).

Hong Kong
Hutchison Telecommunications (Hong Kong) Limited ("Hutchison Telecom"), a subsidiary of Hutchison Whampoa Limited (“HWL”), is responsible for managing HWL’s operations of mobile services in Hong Kong and Macau, telecom retail services and call centre services, as well as mobile communication consultancy services in Mainland China. For its mobile services in Hong Kong and Macau, the Company has brought in two strategic investors, NTT DoCoMo and NEC, who respectively own 24.1% and 5% stake.

Hutchison started mobile business in Hong Kong in 1983 and has always been a pioneer in the development of mobile communications during its past 20 years of operations, deploying multiple mobile technologies in Hong Kong, including 1G TACS/AMPS, 2G GSM/CDMA/PCS, 2.5G GPRS/IS95B and 3G UMTS mobile communications. It was the first operator in the world to launch a CDMA commercial network in 1995 and the first in Asia to launch GSM Dualband network in 1998. Hutchison Telecom was awarded a second-generation mobile phone licence in Macau in October 2000, and officially launched its GSM Dualband mobile service in the territory in August 2001.

Hutchison Telecom is currently the largest mobile operator in Hong Kong, providing superior GSM Dualband and CDMA services with superb network quality and extensive automatic international roaming and GPRS roaming coverage under the “Orange” brand. The Company is the first operator in Hong Kong to roll out world-class 3G services under the “3” brand name in January 2004, forming an integral part of HWL's global 3G footprint.

With its persistent pursuit of delivering the most innovative and best quality mobile data services, the Company leads the market in offering a rich portfolio of pioneering mobile multimedia services, wireless corporate solutions, short messaging, mobile games, wireless Internet and m-commerce. Hutchison Telecom will continue its efforts to ensure that Hong Kong remains at the forefront of the global mobile multimedia arena.

India
The Group's presence in India began with Hutchison Max Telecom Mumbai (formerly Bombay) in 1994. In 2000, the Group acquired interests in the major cities of Delhi and Kolkota and in the state of Gujarat, all with GSM900 technology.

Hutchison Max Telecom, a partnership with local companies Max India and Kotak Mahindra, launched its GSM service in Mumbai in late 1995. The brand "Orange" was launched in February 2000 and has become the most recognised brand for offering the latest in wirefree services due to the enhanced technology and user-friendly products and services. As of April 2003, Hutchison Max Telecom had over 686,600 subscribers.

In Delhi, Hutchison has an interest in Hutchison Essar Telecom Ltd., earlier called Sterling Cellular Ltd. The Group acquired 49% of the equity shares in Sterling Cellular in January 2000 and the balance of 51% is owned by its Indian partners, principally Essar Teleholdings Limited. As of April 2003, Hutchison Essar Telecom had over 619,900 subscribers.

In Kolkota, Hutchison's interest is in Hutchison Telekom East Ltd (HTEL). It offers its services under the "Hutch" brand. HTEL has a base of over 286,500 customers.

In Gujarat, Hutchison's interest, acquired in September 2000, is in Fascel Ltd, Gujarat's number one cellular operator. Fascel operates in Gujarat under the brand name Hutch. As of April 2003, the company had more than 485,600 subscribers and is one of the largest non-metro cellular operators in India.

In August 2001, Hutchison acquired additional licences to operate 1800 MHz mobile phone services in key metropolitan areas, including Karnataka (includes Bangalore), Chennai and Andhra Pradesh (includes Hyderabad) to build on the Group's existing premium footprint with a strong exposure to the South India hi-tech belt. Hutchison has a presence in these areas through Hutchison Essar South Ltd. (HESL), a 49:51 joint venture with Essar Teleholdings Ltd. HESL operates in Andhra Pradesh, Chennai and Karnataka under the brand name "Hutch". As of April 2003, HESL had over 171,200 subscribers across these areas.

Hutchison affiliates jointly account for one of the two largest cellular blocks in India with a base of over 2,249,900 customers out of a total base of around 10 million cellular customers in all of the India.

Thailand
Hutchison has a significant interest in Hutchison CAT Wireless MultiMedia Limited ("HCWML"), formerly known as "Tawan Mobile Telecom Company Limited", a joint venture with the Communication Authority of Thailand ("CAT"), which has been granted a marketing service agreement from the CAT to provide marketing service for 800 MHz CDMA cellular services in the Greater Bangkok Area and Central Thailand until 2015. HCWML, under the "Hutch" brand, offers leading edge data and value added service based on the CDMA2000 1X technology.

Hutchison also has a longstanding operation, which offers paging services (including a newspager information service) nationwide in Thailand, and operates a successful web portal "lemomonline.com" which provides content and features geared to the Thai market.

Sri Lanka
Hutchison acquired 100% of Lanka Cellular Services (Private) Limited in August 1997 which has a license to provide nationwide cellular services in Sri Lanka. The company currently operates an ETACS network (predominantly covering Colombo) and a GSM900 network under the brand name "Rankatha" (English translation "Golden Talk") in the 35 major interior towns of Sri Lanka. Hutchison has pioneered the application of wireless technology and user-friendly products, in the provision of strong value based and accessible voice services to the rural populations of Sri Lanka.

The Company currently has 60,000 subscribers, most of whom are in the interior of towns.

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