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PCCW Mobile HK Limited previously known as Mandarin Communications Limited, was a subsidiary of PCCW (via HKT) involving
mobile network operator A mobile network operator (MNO), also known as a wireless service provider, wireless carrier, cellular company, or mobile network carrier, is a provider of wireless communications services that owns or controls all the elements necessary to sell ...
of 2G and 3G in Hong Kong. It was previously owned by a Caymans-incorporated Hong Kong listed company
Sunday Communications Sunday Communications Limited (branded as SUNDAY Communications) is a Cayman Islands incorporated holding company, but headquartered and listed in Hong Kong S.A.R., China. It is the parent company of a mobile network operator of Hong Kong, M ...
until 2006. The company also owned the license of internet service provider and international direct dialing of Hong Kong.


History

PCCW Mobile HK, previously known as "Mandarin Communications" (registered Chinese name ; trading as SUNDAY), was a Hong Kong company that was incorporated in 1994. Mandarin Communications launched its 2G GSM 1800 network in 1997. Mandarin Communications was a subsidiary of listed company
Sunday Communications Sunday Communications Limited (branded as SUNDAY Communications) is a Cayman Islands incorporated holding company, but headquartered and listed in Hong Kong S.A.R., China. It is the parent company of a mobile network operator of Hong Kong, M ...
since 2000. In 2004, the company signed a contract with Huawei, which the Chinese telecommunications company would supply and installation of a 3G network to SUNDAY, as well as purchasing the shares of its parent company
Sunday Communications Sunday Communications Limited (branded as SUNDAY Communications) is a Cayman Islands incorporated holding company, but headquartered and listed in Hong Kong S.A.R., China. It is the parent company of a mobile network operator of Hong Kong, M ...
. The group acquired the 3G license of Hong Kong via Sunday 3G (Hong Kong) Limited (stylized as SUNDAY 3G), a wholly owned subsidiary of Mandarin Communications. However, the parent company, Sunday Communications, was acquired by PCCW in 2005, and the subsidiary, Mandarin Communications, was renamed to "PCCW Mobile HK Limited" in 2007, after Sunday Communications selling Mandarin Communications and other businesses to its parent company in 2006. PCCW made this acquisition to return to mobile business after it sold
Hong Kong CSL Limited CSL Mobile Limited () is a Hong Kong telecommunications company, which operates mobile network brands of "csl", "1O1O" and "Club SIM". CSL is a subsidiary of Hong Kong Telecom (HKT) and was Hong Kong's first mobile communications operator esta ...
to Australia's Telstra in 2001–02. Nevertheless, after PCCW, via its subsidiary HKT, re-acquired
CSL CSL as an abbreviation may stand for: Places * Coordinated Science Laboratory, at the University of Illinois * Liège Space Center (Centre spatial de Liège), at the University of Liege in Belgium * Central Science Laboratory, a former UK DEFRA ...
(known as a different legal person, CSL Limited, at that time) and its parent company CSL New World Mobility from Telstra and New World Development in December 2013, PCCW ceased to use the brand PCCW in its
mobile network operator A mobile network operator (MNO), also known as a wireless service provider, wireless carrier, cellular company, or mobile network carrier, is a provider of wireless communications services that owns or controls all the elements necessary to sell ...
services, which the legal person of PCCW Mobile HK was renamed to CSL Mobile Limited instead, in 2014.Data in Hong Kong Companies Registry


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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Pccw Mobile Companies established in 1994 Companies disestablished in 2014 Pacific Century Group Mobile phone companies of Hong Kong