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hi magpiie88.welcome aboard. Vodafone Hutchison Australia (VHA) is a mobile telecommunications company that operates the Vodafone, '3' and Crazy John's[2] brands in Australia. The result of a merger between Vodafone Australia and Hutchison 3G Australia, it created a mobile communications entity of nearly 7 million subscribers, A$4 billion in annual revenue and a 27 per cent market share making it Australia's third largest mobile telecommunications provider behind Telstra and Optus.[1]

The joint venture entity is owned by Hutchison Telecommunications Australia (a subsidiary of Hutchison Whampoa) and by Vodafone Group plc on a 50-50 basis.[3] It was formed on 10 June 2009, after shareholder and ACCC approval. At the time of the merger, Former VHA chief executive Nigel Dews said "the first priority is around people and getting the organisation and the organisational structure sorted out", and that head office functions would see the greatest redundancies.

VHA began phasing out the Three brand in mid-2011.[4] At the time registration of new subscribers to Three ended and would instead become Vodafone customers.[4] The Three network was shut down completely on 30 August 2013