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Jan 2003 |
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Signs a retail agreement with the Link
of Dixon Stores Group includes stores and selected Dixons
stores for H3G UK. |
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HWL signs a global agreement with Ericsson
for Ericsson's new Video Gateway System. |
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HWL Chairman Li Ka-shing gives the
first Italian UMTS number SIM card to the Italian Prime
Minister. |
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Selects Reuters for news services in
UK. |
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Feb 2003 |
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3 UK reveals highly competitive pricing options and
customer pre-orders begin online 22 February 2003. |
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Mar 2003 |
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3 UK signs up with Zeppotron, the comedy and entertainment
arm of Endemol UK. |
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3 UK announces that it has entered into agreements
with its lenders to extend and amend the term of its
loan facilities to support the next-stage rollout of
the UK's first commercial 3G handsets, multimedia and
communications service. Under the terms of the agreements,
3 UK has secured its non-recourse financing through
to March 2005, extending the current terms by one year. |
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3
Italy announces new tariffs and launches a prepaid
card service for 3. Commercial service starts
with the delivery of the first handsets to the pre-registered
clients. |
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The Group rolls out its 3G mobile video
and multimedia services in the UK. |
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3
HK launches 3 website and begins online registration
of interest. |
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Apr 2003 |
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The Group announces an agreement with
NTT DoCoMo, Inc. to co-operate in the development and
promotion of third-generation mobile multimedia and
communications services on an international basis. This
agreement initially unites the research and marketing
capabilities of the two companies. Under the agreement,
the two pioneers of 3G services will share information
on handset development, radio network architecture and
the development of global 3G standards. Additionally
both companies will jointly examine potential areas
of cooperation in the creation of multimedia applications,
in international 3G roaming and in corporate sales and
systems solutions. |
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Hutchison
3G Australia launches 3
- Australia's first live person-to-person mobile video
telephony and information, communication and entertainment
service. Services later extended to include Brisbane,
Adelaide, Gold Coast and Perth in July 2003. |
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May 2003 |
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3
Austria opens 3Stores in Austria, marking
the beginning of 3's mobile multimedia services
in the country. |
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The Group's subsidiary Hi3G
Access AB (Hi3G Access) rolls out the first 3G mobile
video communication service in Sweden. Hi3G Access also
starts to take pre-bookings in the first retail outlets
in its distribution network throughout Sweden.
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The Group's 3G video mobile brand "3"
signs a global content deal with Playboy Enterprises,
Inc. (PEI), giving 3 exclusive, multi-year rights
to provide Playboy's print, online and broadcast libraries
to customers in markets operated by Hutchison's 3G Companies. |
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3
HK holds off lucky draw for early registrants. |
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June 2003 |
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The Group and NTT DoCoMo, Inc. announce
that the two companies have agreed on further details
on 25 June, 2003 regarding the agreement they concluded
on 23 April, 2003 to cooperate on the development and
promotion of third-generation services, based on W-CDMA
technology. According to the terms of the agreement,
the Group and NTT DoCoMo collaborate on the areas of
handsets, standards, international roaming and radio
technology. |
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3
HK announces services trials underway for internal
users and related business associates. |
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July 2003 |
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3
HK offers 333 free local video call minutes to early
registrants. |
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Hutchison
3G HK Limited awards a contract to NEC and Siemens
mobile for the supply of the radio network of its 3G WCDMA-based
network. |
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3
UK signs a new agreement with the Royal & Ancient
Golf Club to offer its customers the chance to watch
interviews and video highlights of the golfing action
from this year's Open Championship on their 3
handsets.
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3
UK announces it partnership with lastminute.com,
Europe's leading online travel agency, to launch a unique
service on its network. This new service will allow
3 customers
to search for great deals on lastminute.com holidays
and lifestyle products and research travel information
from their 3 handsets. |
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3
HK offers 3 registrants free first class tickets
of "Invest Hong Kong Football Challenge 2003"
Liverpool vs Hong Kong team. |
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August 2003 |
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Hi3G
Denmark ApS signs an agreement with TDC to ensure
3's Danish customers have access to the national
network in areas outside its network coverage. |
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Announces over 520,000 subscribers to 3
worldwide. |
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3
HK gives away first class football match tickets
of "Real Madrid Asia Tour 2003" to 3
registrants. |
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3
HK holds International Lucky Draw to bring together
users of 3 global network. |
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3
Denmark announces that the company has signed a roaming
agreement with TDC to ensure 3 customers
of national full network coverage for mobile telephony
and SMS. |
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September 2003 |
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Hi3G Access Norway AS, wholly owned
subsidiary of the Group’s subsidiary Hi3G Access
AB, has been awarded a licence to offer 3G services
in Norway. The company will provide the Norwegian population
with world-leading mobile video communication and other
mobile telecom services under the brand 3. |
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3 HK organizes "3 Football Tour 2003 Lucky
Draw" to offer early registrants free football
tour to England. |
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3
UK announces an agreement with MTV Networks Europe
to provide music video and original MTV programming on
video mobiles for 3 customers. |
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October 2003 |
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3
Ireland launches its 3G network offering
its key corporate partners access to its services in Dublin.
The services currently include video mobile calling and
a range of content. |
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3
Austria announces that the deaf can telephone for
the first time with handsets from 3. The innovative
products and services of 3, which make communication
more simple for the deaf and others, can be used now in
the Vienna metropolitan area. |
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Hi3G
Denmark rolls out video communication serivces in
Denmark and starts pre-booking customers. |
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Hi3G
Access AB announces the launch of the first mobile
video streaming in Sweden and Denmark, allowing 3
customers in both countries to watch streamed video news
on their mobiles. |
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3
Austria rolls out 3Visual
for the deaf in Austria. Mobile Video Telephony is a completely
new device that enables the deaf people to communicate
with each other in real time in sign language. |
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3
Ireland signs a deal with Esat BT to build and operate
its 3G radio access network in the Republic of Ireland. |
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November 2003 |
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The Group signs an agreement with KPN,
under which KPN agrees to sell its entire shareholding
in Hutchison
3G UK to HWL. Upon completion of the transaction on
31 December 2007, the Group's shareholding in Hutchison
3G UK will increase from 65 per cent to 80 per cent. |
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Hi3G
Denmark starts distribution the first 3G phones in
Denmark. |
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Partner
Communications Company Ltd. ("Partner")
announces that Partner has selected Nortel Networks in
a frame agreement with an estimated value of US $93 million
to supply what is expected to be Israel's first third-generation
(3G) UMTS Wireless Network. |
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December 2003 |
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The Group marks an important development
of 3
in Hong Kong by unveiling a range of exciting and innovative
video mobile services made possible by the company’s
ground-breaking 3G technology. 3 will
deliver to customers an integrated information, communication
and entertainment service on its new generation of mobile
phones, which also offer video calling and video messaging.
Together with NEC, the Group will launch the latest NEC
616 video mobile phone. |
Hutchison
Whampoa Limited.