Vodafone Australia is a mobile telephone company, a subsidiary of Vodafone Hutchison Australia. Vodafone Australia was formerly a wholly owned subsidiary of Vodafone Plc . On 10 June 2009, after ACCC approval, Vodafone Australia merged with the Australian subsidiary of Hutchison 3G to become Vodafone Hutchison Australia Pty Ltd, owned by Hutchison Telecommunications Australia and Vodafone Group PLC on a 50-50 basis. Phone products include prepaid and postpaid mobile services, on GSM and 3G UMTS mobile networks. Vodafone live! is Vodafone's mobile Internet service. The GSM mobile service on... 900 MHz and 1800 MHz covers 94.52% of the Australian population. The 3G 2100 MHz UMTS network is available in metro areas of major cities and some larger regional centres covering 10% of the population. Expansion of the 3G UMTS network using 900 MHz to equal or surpass the GSM coverage is due to be completed by 31 August 2009 .
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