Hutchison highlights for 3G

August 25, 2005

-- The 3 Group's businesses have improved steadily and continue to build a quality customer base.

-- 3G customer base currently totals over 9.4 million worldwide.

-- 3 Italy is on target to achieve EBItdA breakeven, after all CAC expense, on a monthly basis for the month of August this year and 3 UK is expected to achieve this significant milestone later this year.

-- 3 Group's funding requirements to decline in the second half of this year and it is positioned to contribute significant value to the Group.

-- 3 Group has continued to achieve both above market expectation customer take-up and above market average customer revenue and service margins as migration of the most valuable 2 and 2.5G cellular customers to 3G services has accelerated in all of their markets.