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Hutchison Telecommunications (Australia) Limited

AMTA Congress – Carriers’ Roundtable

Steve Wright Director, Stakeholder Relations

25 September 2003

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What is ?

• 3 is Australia’s only 3G mobile operator• live person-to-person videocalling• multimedia messaging (video, picture, text)• video news, sport, entertainment and finance

• Initiated globally by Hutchison Whampoa (Hong Kong)• one of Australia’s biggest foreign investors

• Successfully introducing leading technology – the world’s only multinational deployment of next generation mobile services

3G

‘Here and Now’

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3G ‘Here and Now’

• 3G networks implemented in UK, Italy, Australia, Sweden and Austria. Hong Kong, Ireland, Denmark, Israel and Norway to come

• More than 50,000 sales in Australia

– ‘First on 3’ intro offer NEC e606, Motorola A830 sold out

• 3 sales passed 500,000 globally

– More than 1 million by end 2003

• 2 million NEC and Motorola handsets on order

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Strategic Industry Decisions• Telstra Clear is seeking a network supplier to deploy 3G in New Zealand

• $53 million investment by Alcatel to develop Malaysia as its hub for 3G operations

• Optus trialling 3G; SingTel implementing 3G in Singapore in 2004

• Vodafone announced intention to implement 3G in 2005

– Vodafone NZ in 2005; Australia “in discussions” for 3G partnership to offer services by 2005

• All major manufacturers producing 3G handsets

– Motorola, NEC, Nokia, LG, Samsung, Ericsson, Sanyo

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Industry Comment Upbeat

• IDC predicts 30m smartphones in 2004; 140% 3G growth

• Camera phones now outselling digital cameras*

• Shosteck Research highlights efficiency of 3G technology with lower voice operating costs and enhanced profitability

– 3G is “coming together…”

• Stockbroker commentary says 3 “…is the real deal”

* Strategy Analytics

Leading Handsets

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NEC e808N

• 2 built-in cameras for Videotalk, video and picture messaging

• QWERTY keyboard

• Large viewing screen

• 64 Meg memory

• Modem

• Email Client

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Motorola A920• “All singing, all dancing” Motorola

A920 now available

• Setting the standard (Symbian Operating System)

• Up to 128 Meg memory

• Seven devices in one

Mobile phone – Email - PDA - MP3 Music - Games Digital camera - Video camera

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Motorola A920

• 65,000+ colour touch screen with 20 lines of text

• Video and voice messaging; listen to email

• Stylus navigation, handwriting recognition

• Personal Information Management- sync to MS Outlook, Lotus Notes, Lotus Organizer

• Integrated speakerphone

• Email client

– POP3 (including Ozemail and Yahoo) coming

The future

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The future

To realise new revenues:

• Mobile business must continue to evolve

• Handsets, Content, Services

• Personal and business tool

• New capabilities which deliver value

– True multimedia

– Mobile office

– M commerce (B2B, B2C , C2B)

• Regulatory environment which supports innovation

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The future: Here and Now

“I’d compare what 3 has done for mobile communications, to the day

that fax machines revolutionised the postal scene”

-Mike Donegan, Men in Red.