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Chunghwa Telecom Co., Ltd. (NYSE:CHT)
Q3 2024 Earnings Call
November 06, 2024, 03:00 AM ET

Company Participants

Rong-Shy Lin - President
Audrey Hsu - CFO
Angela Tsai - Assistant VP, IR

Conference Call Participants

Sara Wang - UBS

Operator

Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to Chunghwa Telecom Conference Call for the Company's Third Quarter 2024 Operating Results. During the presentation, all lines will be on listen-only mode. And when the briefing is finished, directions for submitting your questions will be given in the question-and-answer session. For your information, this conference call is now being broadcasted live over the Internet. Webcast replay will be available within an hour after the conference is finished. Please visit CHT IR website, www.cht.com.tw/ir under the IR Calendar section.

And now I would like to turn it over to Ms. Angela Tsai, Assistant Vice President of Investor Relations. Thank you. Ms. Tsai, please go ahead.

Angela Tsai

Thank you. I'm Angela Tsai, Assistant Vice President of the Finance Department for Chunghwa Telecom. Welcome to our third quarter 2024 results conference call. Joining me on the call today are Rong-Shy Lin, our recently appointed President; and Audrey Hsu, our new Chief Financial Officer. As usual, I would like to remind everyone to read our disclaimers and note the related forward-looking statements on Page 2.

Before I turn the call over to President Lin, I would like to briefly introduce our newly appointed President and CFO. President Rong-Shy Lin hold a PhD degree in Computer Science from National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, and has previously served as our Chief Business Officer, Chief Technology Officer and Chief Information Security Officer, possessing comprehensive experience in business development and technology advancements in the telecom industry.

Our new CFO, Audrey Hsu, holds her PhD degree in Accounting and Finance from Lancaster University, and was serving as Professor of Accounting at the National Taiwan University. She was also the Associate Dean of International Affairs and Director of GMBA of National Taiwan University. We warmly welcome our new executives, President Lin and Dr. Hsu, to the earnings conference.

And now I will turn the call over to President Lin for the business update, who will be followed by Dr. Hsu for the financial highlights. Afterwards, we will move on to the Q&A session. President Lin, please go ahead.

Rong-Shy Lin

Thank you, Angela, and hello, everyone. Welcome to our third quarter 2024 results conference call. To begin, I would like to extend a warm welcome from all of Chunghwa Telecom to our new CFO, Audrey Hsu. We are happy to have her join our executive team and to participate in today's call. And now please flip to Page 3 for our recent strategic achievements.