China Motion wins MVNO license in HK

date: November 29, 2001

Hong Kong Office of Telecommunications Authority Thursday started to issue public non-exclusive telecom licenses to provide 3G mobile virtual network operator services (MVNO), marking a new round of competitions in the local telecom market.

Xinhua, Anthony Wong, director-general of telecommunications authority, said that it is an important step to further open the telecom market by allowing companies without their own networks to participate in operations of local mobile telecom services.

China Motion Telecom International Limited, one of Hong Kong's major telecom service providers, was the first licensed company for 3G MNVO services in Hong Kong. It can provide various kinds of mobile services with its own infrastructure, including switching, billing and database.

Co-operated with host network operators, the company will provide services ranging from mobile telephone services, short messaging and external telecom services, to information and entertainment, WAP, mobile Internet and m-commerce, said Tony Ho, China Motion's chairman and managing director.

According to the authority's obligations on open network access, Hong Kong's licenced 3G network operators have to open 30 percent of their network capacity to "non-affiliated" service providers, including mobile virtual network operators.

Hong Kong is ranking the first in mobile telephone penetration, with a total of over 5 million mobile phone users among its total population of 7 million. Of the six licensed 2G mobile network operators in Hong Kong, four are licensed 3G mobile network operators.

On September, Hong Kong completed the final phase of the 3G auction, with four provisional licensees taking the 3G spectrum home with HK$4.08 million.

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