The de-merger will see the company’s mobile businesses, including Celcom in Malay-sia, housed within TMI. The move could trigger a search for an agency to handle TMI’s advertising across the region, said a source.
Naga DDB was invited to pitch, but declined because of conflict with DiGi.
The brief is to build the Hello brand and gain market share. Hello is Cambodia’s third-largest mobile telco, with 269,000 subscribers.