Subsidiary | |
Founded | 1985 |
Headquarters | Hong Kong |
Area served
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Indonesia Sri Lanka Vietnam |
Key people
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Canning Fok (Chairman) Dennis Lui (CEO) |
Products | Mobile and fixed line telecommunications |
Parent | CK Hutchison Holdings |
Website | www |
Hutchison Asia Telecommunications Limited, formerly Hutchison Telecommunications International Limited, is a multinational telecommunications services company headquartered in Hong Kong and a wholly owned subsidiary of Hutchison Whampoa. It operates GSM mobile telecommunications services in Sri Lanka and Vietnam, and CDMA services in Indonesia and Thailand, under brands including Hutch, 3 and Vietnamobile.
Hutchison Telecom was formerly a listed company with a primary listing on the (stock code: : 2332) and American Depositary Shares quoted on the . In May 2010, Hutchison Telecom became a fully owned subsidiary of the Hong Kong-based Hutchison Whampoa Group and its shares were delisted.
In 1999 and 2000, Hutchison Telecom sold its Orange and VoiceStream interests and re-invested the greater part of the proceeds to develop its global third-generation (3G) mobile broadband telecommunications business, based on the European UMTS (W-CDMA) 3G standard.
In early 2007, Hutchison Telecom made headlines by selling its 67% interest in the Indian mobile phone network Hutch Essar to Vodafone for US$13.1 billion (of which $2 billion was debt).