Hutchison Whampoa Ltd shares fell 2.28% in Hong Kong yesterday on selling triggered by concern over the prospects of its Orange Personal Communications Network, brokers told Reuter – but AirTouch Communications Inc may ride to the rescue – it told a Financial Times conference yesterday that it has ambitions to get involved in the UK mobile phone market but is biding its time: in its previous incarnation as part of Pacific Telesis Group Inc, it was originally involved in the consortium that developed into the Orange group but Our examination of the market in 1990 was that there was not sufficient demand to support three players, it said.
