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Hutchison Telecommunications (Australia) Ltd

Early in 2009 Hutchison Telecommunications (Australia) Ltd and Vodafone Australia agreed to merge their Australian mobile telecommunications businesses. Hutchison, through its 3 brand, launched Australia's first 3G network and services. The combined entity will provide coverage to 63% of the population with 3G services and to 95% of the population with 2G services. The merged entity will operate under the name VHA with products marketed under the Vodafone brand with the option to continue to operate the 3 brand. It is perhaps likely that within five years VHA will have significantly closed the gap on Optus in terms of market share. However Telstra may have lost disproportionately more customers to VHA and this may result in a market share split for Australia of roughly a third of the market each as compared to a split of 40/35/25 between Telstra, Optus and VHA today. However the response in the short term from Optus in particular is likely to be aggressive in terms of pricing competition for both consumer and business users. Previously Hutchison was the fourth largest mobile service provider in Australia which included operating a Third Generation (3G) Wideband CDMA (WCDMA) network - in Sydney, Adelaide, Brisbane, Gold Coast, Melbourne, Perth, Canberra, Werribee, Geelong, Campbelltown, Frankston and Wollongong, branded '3'.

Last Update: 16 Jun 2009 Number of Pages: 18

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Table of Contents

1. Synopsis
2. Vodafone and Hutchison merge australian operations. 
2.1 Competition concerns
2.2 High level facts and figures 
2.3 Positive and Negative elements
2.4 Management
2.5 Outlook
3. Company information
4. Financial results
4.1 Financial results - 2007 - 2008
5. Financial results - historical
5.1 Financial results - 2006
6. Operating highlights
7. Market analysis
7.1 Hutchison no longer the 3G market leader
8. 3G Alliances
8.1 Hutchison 3G Australia (H3GA)
8.1.1 New agreement with Telecom New Zealand
8.2 3G network sharing agreement with Telstra
8.3 Yahoo!7 - as portal advertising partner
9. The network
9.1 Overview of 3G networks
9.2 3G '3' network
9.3 Network management
9.4 3G network sharing agreement with Telstra
9.5 3G HSDPA network upgrade
9.6 3G Network expansion
9.7 Network history
9.8 Network management
9.9 Spectrum acquisitions
10. Company ownership
10.1 Parent company - Hutchison Whampoa Ltd
10.2 Telecom New Zealand
11. Products and services
11.1 3G
11.2 Mobile TV
11.2.1 3 completes mobile TV MBMS trial
11.3 Mobile broadband
11.4 The X-Series (Internet applications suite)
11.4.1 Overview
11.4.2 Users can make Skype calls
11.5 Alliance with iiNet
11.6 Skypephone
12. Company history
13. Related reports

Table 1 - Operating revenue and annual change - 1997 - 2009

Table 2 - Key financial results - 2004 - 2008

Table 3 - ARPU per month - for year to Dec 2006 to 2008

Table 4 - Hutchison ARPU per month - 2004 - 2008

Table 5 - Non-voice ARPU per month - 2004 - 2006

Table 6 - Average margin and acquisition cost per customer - 2004 - 2006

Table 7 - Overall subscribers and annual change - 1999 - 20091

Table 8 - Customers by division - 2003 - 20081


Exhibit 1 - Hutchison Telecommunications (Australia) Ltd at a glance

Exhibit 2 - Hutchison spectrum acquisitions