Hutchison 動きやすい 取引，協定 pointer for UK

By LACHLAN COLQUHOUN
Updated: 00:00 BST, 2 December 2002

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TELECOMS group Hutchison is to を引き渡す the day-to-day 操作／手術 of its new-世代 動きやすい service in Australia to Sweden's Ericsson - a 劇の rethink that could be rolled out to its troubled UK 商売／仕事.

The company, which 開始する，打ち上げるd the successful Orange 動きやすい brand in the UK, is 捜し出すing to 割れ目 the British market for new third 世代 (3G) services. But its 最新の UK 部隊, Hut chison 3G, has 延期するd its 開始する，打ち上げる and 行方不明になるd its 顧客 的s.

Under the Aussie 取引，協定, Hutchison is 手渡すing over the 操作／手術 of its 3G 網状組織 to Ericsson for the next seven years. Ericsson will 設立する a 部隊 to manage the services, and take on about 240 Hutchison staff. It will operate Hutchison's paging, the 存在するing Orange 動きやすい 網状組織 and the £1.06bn 3G 網状組織 予定 to 開始する，打ち上げる 早期に next year. This will leave Hutchison to 焦点（を合わせる） on content and 使用／適用s.

株 in Sydney-名簿（に載せる）／表（にあげる）d Hutchison 遠隔通信s, in the doldrums for much of the company's four-year history, 殺到するd more than 17% today on news of the 取引，協定. Hutchison is 大多数 owned by Hong Kong 複合的な／複合企業体-Hutchison Whampoa, which is 長，率いるd by one of Asia's richest men, Li Ka-shing.

Australians are known as 早期に adaptors of new 科学（工学）技術, and many providers 見解（をとる） the country as a 実験（する）ing ground for the 商業の viability of new 使用／適用s. Hutchison's Australian 3G 開始する，打ち上げる will be one of the company's first.

The 3G service 申し込む／申し出s 使用者s features such as faster internet 接近 and 多数伝達媒体を用いる activities, though its 開始する，打ち上げる has been 妨害するd by handset 不足s and hefty 負債s afflicting the 産業. Questions still remain about 3G's likely take-up by 顧客s.

Hutchison Australia sold its old 動きやすい 顧客 base to 競争相手 Optus last year and said its 未来 would be made or broken by 3G. Other major providers in Australia such as Telstra, Optus and Vodafone are playing a wait-and-see game, watching the 運命／宿命 of the Hutchison 実験.

Hutchison is yet to make any real inroads into the Australian market, and has a 株 of いっそう少なく than 5% with its second-世代 Orange brand にもかかわらず 大規模な advertising, 含むing sponsoring the 現在の Ashes cricket series. The 会社／堅い most recently 地位，任命するd a half-year loss of A$72.7m(£26.2m).

In the UK, Hutchison 3G has been 軍隊d to 否定する it has 違反d a banking covenant 予定 to the 延期するd 開始する，打ち上げる. It had 目的（とする）d for 400,000 顧客s by the end o f 2001, with another 1.5 million by the end of this year. It 現在／一般に has no 顧客s, and partly 非難するs a 欠如（する） of handsets.

Hutchison sold Orange in 1999, and the brand is now owned by フラン Telecom.