[H3G, Italy's 3G mobile operator, announces world's first call using UMTS technology over a real network. H3G is marketing its new service under the brand name 3.]

Rome -- "H3G SpA, the Italian third-generation mobile operator controlled by Hong Kong-based Hutchison Whampoa Ltd., Tuesday demonstrated what the company said was the world's first mobile phone call using UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunications System) technology.

"It's the first phone call in the world using the new technology over a real network," Vincenzo Novari, H3G's chief executive officer, told reporters at the company's base on the outskirts of Rome."

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