telecommunications limited type subsidiary founded 1985 headquarters hong kong area served indonesia sri lanka vietnam key people canning fok chairman dennis lui ceo products mobile and fixed line telecommunications parent ck hutchison holdings website www.ckh.com.hk en businesses hat.php 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 hong kong stock exchange stock code sehk 2332 and american depositary shares quoted on the new york stock exchange . in may 2010 hutchison telecom became a fully owned subsidiary of the hong kong based hutchison whampoa group and its shares were delisted . 1 contents 1 history 2 corporate affairs 3 current operations 3.1 3g 3.2 3 indonesia 3.3 hutch sri lanka 3.4 vietnamobile 3.5 hutch thailand 4 former operations 4.1 hutchison india 4.2 hutchison orange israel 5 references 6 external links history edit 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 . in 2009 hutchison sold its controlling stake in orange israel to scailex corporation.thus it ended using the orange brand for providing mobile services . in 2009 it spun off hutchison telecommunications hong kong holdings sehk 215 to be listed on the hong kong stock exchange . 2 corporate affairs edit hutchison telecom was formerly listed on the stock exchanges of hong kong sehk and new york nyse . 3 it is fully owned by hutchison whampoa . current operations edit 3g edit main article hutchison 3g hutchison telecom s parent company hutchison whampoa developed 3g services under the 3 brand . it was first to roll out commercial 3g services based on high speed mobile video telephony streaming and downloads as well as music voice and data services . hutchison whampoa limited currently holds 3g licences in eleven markets australia austria denmark indonesia ireland italy macau sweden and the uk . 3 indonesia edit in july 2005 hutchison telecom acquired a 60 % equity stake in pt hutchison cp telecommunications hutchison cp telecom or hcpt ; formerly known as pt cyber access communications from the charoen pokphand group indonesia . in 2006 hcpt announced that it retained siemens to design build and operate state of the art 2g and 3g nationwide wireless networks . hcpt launched its commercial services on 30 march 2007 under the 3 brand . indonesia is an extremely attractive wireless market with a sizable population and a relatively low mobile penetration rate . it is an excellent example of hutchison telecom s vision and strategy in achieving growth in emerging markets . at the end of september 2009 hcpt s customer base grew to approximately 7.3 million . hutch sri lanka edit main article hutch sri lanka the company s sri lankan operation commonly known as hutch is the country s youngest and smallest operator but is growing fast . the company recently introduced 3g hspa feature on its network and also an air time sharing system called me2u for transferring credit from one hutch phone to another . vietnamobile edit main article vietnamobile in july 2004 hutchison telecommunications vietnam s. r.l. hutchison telecom vietnam a wholly owned subsidiary of hutchison telecom entered into a business cooperation contract with hanoi telecom joint stock company . in february 2005 hutchison telecom was granted an investment licence by the government for the project and in january 2007 launched cdma service under the brand ht mobile . while they offered a superior network the market uptake was greatly hampered by the lack of affordable cdma handsets in particular those with the vietnamese language option coupled with the trend of leading manufacturers to scale back handset development for this market . on 8 march 2008 they received government approval to convert from cdma technology to gsm . after the successful conversion it launched gsm services in april 2009 under the new brand vietnamobile . the brand surpassed the one million customer mark within six months of launch mostly in the prepaid segment . vietnamobile offers some of the highest growth potential in the region . hutch thailand edit in 2000 hutchison telecom and cat telecom public company limited cat telecom entered into a joint venture by establishing hutchison cat wireless multimedia ltd. hutchison cat to provide exclusive marketing services for cat telecom s cdma mobile telecommunications in 25 provinces located in the bangkok metropolitan area and in central east coast and west coast regions of thailand . in 2003 hutchison cat launched marketing services for cat telecom s cdma mobile services under the brand hutch providing high speed voice and data wireless service to customers . in 2013 hutch thailand has ended its cdma services former operations edit hutchison india edit hutchison essar limited started operations under the brand name orange in mumbai . in other states it was marketed under hutch brand . it was then changed to hutch nationwide when they expanded rapidly to become the third largest mobile service provider in india and furthered its market share through the acquisition of bpl fascel command & aircel digilink . on march 31 2007 hutch essar sold its 67.1 % stake to vodafone . hutchison orange israel edit even after selling the orange brand to mannesmann ag in february 1999 4 hutchison continued its use in israel . recently they have sold the controlling stake in this venture to scailex corporation . thus it ends the story of orange brand associated with hutchison telecom . though scailex corp are still using this brand for their operations . references edit 1 archived february 5 2011 at the wayback machine . hutchison telecom confirms spin off plans for hong kong holdings 06 12 2007 orascom telecom cuts ties with htil http www.hutchison whampoa.com en about milestones.php year 1999 . external link in title help external links edit official website v t e members of the conexus mobile alliance fareastone hutchison indosat ooredoo kt ntt docomo smart starhub truemove h vinaphone v t e major information technology companies largest it companies largest internet companies largest software companies semiconductor sales leaders by year consulting and outsourcing accenture atos booz allen hamilton bt global services caci capgemini cgi group cognizant computer sciences corporation deloitte digital china fujitsu hcl technologies hitachi consulting hewlett packard enterprise services ibm global services indra sistemas infosys kpmg leidos nec ntt data orange business services t systems tata consultancy services tech mahindra unisys wipro imaging canon inc. hp inc. eastman kodak fujifilm konica minolta kyocera lexmark nikon olympus corporation panasonic ricoh samsung electronics seiko epson sharp sony toshiba xerox information storage adata dell technologies dell emc fujitsu hitachi data systems hewlett packard enterprise ibm kingston technology lenovoemc netapp oracle corporation plextor samsung electronics seagate technology silicon power sony toshiba transcend information western digital sandisk internet aol baidu facebook google iac interactivecorp microsoft naver netease netflix tencent twitter yahoo yandex cloud computing amazon web services google ibm microsoft oracle corporation 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