HUTCHISON WHAMPOA (Hong Kong) is on the point of selling 35% of the stake that it holds in its British company, the owner of a licence for third generation mobile telephony UMTS, to the Dutch group KPN MOBILE NV and to NTT DOCOMO (Japanese group NTT). Both partners are willing to disburse between $1.5 and 2 billion in order to acquire this stake. KPN would take 15% and NTT the remaining 20%. After this move, HUTCHISON would keep control of its subsidiary with 58% of the capital, the...