Vodafone Hutchison Australia customers down to 5m VODAFONE Hutchison Australia's customer base has dropped to just over 5 million subscribers after the No3 mobile player haemorrhaged close to 600,000 customers in the three months to September. Vodafone Group, which owns 50 per cent of VHA with Hutchison Whampoa, revealed overnight that 584,000 subscribers, more than 10 per cent of its base, were removed from its books in the past three months.