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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.