CSL Mobile Limited () is a

Hong Kong Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China ( abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delt ...

telecommunications company, which operates mobile network brands of "csl", "1O1O" and "Club SIM". CSL is a subsidiary of

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(HKT) and was

's first

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operator established in 1983, and also the first network to launch the world’s first dual band

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network with

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. The brand CSL was under different legal person in its operating history, namely Communication Services Limited, which known as Hong Kong Telecom CSL Limited from 1990 to 1999, and then Cable & Wireless HKT CSL Limited from 1999 to 2001, and then Hong Kong CSL Limited from 2001 (it became a subsidiary of CSL Limited after the formation of CSL New World Mobility), CSL Limited (formerly known as

New World PCS New World PCS Limited (abb. NWPCS) was a mobile network operator (MNO) of Hong Kong. History New World PCS Limited was a subsidiary of New World Development that was incorporated on 16 February 1995. In 1997 the brand New World Mob ...

) and CSL Mobile Limited; The current

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of the brand, CSL Mobile Limited, was formally known as PCCW Mobile HK Limited. It was the result of the merger of the brands CSL and PCCW Mobile.

History

In the 1990s, CSL was a company of

PCCW PCCW Limited (formerly known as Pacific Century CyberWorks Limited) is a Hong Kong-based information and communications technology (ICT) company. The company is the majority owner of telecommunications company HKT Limited, and also holds a maj ...

(formerly HKT). In 2002, PCCW sold CSL. In 2005, PCCW re-entered the

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business by acquiring

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and setting up a new brand "

PCCW Mobile PCCW Mobile HK Limited previously known as Mandarin Communications Limited, was a subsidiary of PCCW (via HKT) involving mobile network operator of 2G and 3G in Hong Kong. It was previously owned by a Caymans-incorporated Hong Kong listed co ...

". In 2014, HKT (a member of PCCW Group) acquired CSL New World Mobility and its subsidiaries such as CSL Limited and

New World Mobility Sun Mobile Limited (branded as SUN Mobile), formerly known as New World Mobility Limited, is a mobile network operator brand and company in Hong Kong. It is a joint venture of HKT and . New World Mobility Limited and New World Mobility was a ...

. In 2014, the legal person of

was renamed into CSL Mobile Limited.Data in Hong Kong Companies Registry However, it used the brand CSL instead. CSL was an abbreviation for ''Communication Services Limited'' and their original branding of "''Create a Simple Life''". The CSL brand, logo and corporate colour (green) were all updated in August 2011 and again in recent year.

Timeline

* 1980: Communication Services Limited was incorporated. *1984: CSL, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hong Kong Telecom, launches Hong Kong's first public mobile radiotelephone service using NEC's Advance Mobile Telephone System. *July 1993: CSL launches its GSM service. *June 1997: CSL launches its GSM 1800 network. *December 1997: CSL acquires Pacific Link Communications. The acquisition included the digital cellular phone services (D-Amps), PCS (GSM1800) and radio paging services. *2000:

PCCW Limited PCCW Limited (formerly known as Pacific Century CyberWorks Limited) is a Hong Kong-based information and communications technology (ICT) company. The company is the majority owner of telecommunications company HKT Limited, and also holds a maj ...

buys HKT, including subsidiary CSL (known as Hong Kong Telecom CSL Limited at that time), for an estimated US$38 billion from Cable & Wireless. *February 2001: PCCW sells 60% of CSL to Telstra for $3.05 billion, in a joint venture called "Regional Wireless Company" (RWC). *July 2002: Telstra purchases PCCW's 40% stake in RWC for A$1.1billion, giving Telstra 100% ownership of CSL. *March 2006: CSL &

merge to become the CSL New World Mobility. The enlarged group owned the brands CSL, 1010, One2Free and

, and was majority owned by

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;

New World Mobile Holdings Vision Values Holdings Limited is a Caymans-incorporated Hong Kong listed company. The company was under two backdoor listing, which the company was formerly known as New World Mobile Holdings (abb. NWM), Asia Logistics Technologies and Wah Yik Ho ...

was a minor shareholder. *January 2007: New World Mobile Holdings agrees to sell its quarter stake of CSL New World Mobility to its parent company

New World Development New World Development Company Limited (NWD), is a Hong Kong-based company focused on property developer in Hong Kong, property, hotels, infrastructure and services and department stores. It was established on 29 May 1970 by Cheng Yu-tung. The ...

, for US$321 million. *March 2009: CSL launches the international award winning Next G™ network. Next G™ is an all-IP HSPA+ commercial mobile broadband network capable of download speeds up to 21Mbit/s and provides the widest coverage in Hong Kong (as at 1 Dec 2011). *November 2010: Launches the world's first LTE/DC-HSPA+ network in partnership with ZTE. *June 2012: CSL and

SK Telecom SK Telecom Co., Ltd. ( or ) is a South Korean wireless telecommunications operator and former film distributor and is part of the SK Group, one of the country's largest chaebols. It leads the local market with 50.5 percent share as of 2008. S ...

, the largest mobile operator in Korea, launches the world’s first 4G LTE international roaming between their two markets – Hong Kong and Korea. *December 2013: CSL launches the first VoLTE (Voice over LTE) network in Hong Kong. *December 2013: Telstra and New World Development have agreed to sell CSL New World Mobility to HKT, a listed unit of PCCW for $2.43B USD, essentially selling it back to PCCW. Telstra owns 76.4% of CSL, New World Development owns the rest 23.6%. *May 2014: The Communications Authority agree to the sale of CSL, subject to conditions. * September 2014: The brand

was renamed to Sun Mobile, and owned by HKT and *December 2014: CSL launches the first

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network in Hong Kong. *April 2020: Become one of the three operators in Hong Kong to launch 5G network.

Network

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External links

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Official website of CSL Mobile's 1010 brand
{{Bridge Alliance Mobile phone companies of Hong Kong Telecommunications companies established in 1980 1980 establishments in Hong Kong New World Development Pacific Century Group Telstra

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