SmarTone Telecommunications saw its shares drop 15 per cent in Hong Kong trading yesterday after announcing a cut in its payout ratio on Wednesday, citing the need to invest in its network to meet...
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- Oct 3, 2013
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SmarTone
SmarTone Mobile Communications Ltd is a mobile phone operator in Hong Kong, and partly owned by Sun Hung Kai Properties. SmarTone was launched by Sun Hung Kai Properties and ABC Communications in 1992.
12 Sep 2013
SmarTone Telecommunications has lowered its payout ratio to 60 per cent from 100 per cent, saying the move was prompted by the need to invest large sums in its networks to meet consumers' growing...
3:31AM
9 Sep 2013
With the launch of its 4G network in August last year, SmarTone Telecommunications predicted a big shift in subscriber traffic to its new high-speed mobile service.
5:38AM
12 Apr 2013
The Hong Kong government has failed to appraise fully the negative impact that its plan to reassign 3G spectrum in use and impose a significant increase in license fees would have on mobile...
5:43AM
29 Mar 2013
Mobile network operator SmarTone Telecommunications has completed a US$200 million bond offering that will help finance the company's bid to renew its 3G spectrum licence in 2016.
5:13AM
18 Mar 2013
The mobile communications market will see costs spiral up for both consumers and service providers under the government's plan to seize and auction off chunks of 3G spectrum currently in use,...
2:17AM
SmarTone Telecommunications, CSL, Hutchison Telecommunications Hong Kong and PCCW's HKT are to be invited by the legislative body's panel on information technology and broadcasting to discuss the...
6:41AM
The government, represented by the Communications Authority, is expected to decide on that plan in October, which would be exactly three years before the 3G spectrum licences of CSL, SmarTone...
6:29AM
SmarTone Telecommunications, which saw its interim net profit decline by 3 per cent, aims to target more lower-spending 3G network users to offset falling roaming revenue and stiff price...
4:58AM
It matters not whether it runs on a 3G or 4G network or that its map application does not know where the Bank of China is. Apple fans in Hong Kong do not care as long as they can lay their hands...
4:14AM
SmarTone gives credence to the biblical saying: he who is last, shall be first.
About 3½ years ago the company bet that high-speed 4G mobile services and devices would be widely supported...
4:13AM
Apple's new iPhone 5 is set to whip up a buying fervour when it hits Hong Kong and eight other markets today, defying speculators' expectations and pre-launch mockery of its features.
3:16AM
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