China Mobile Hong Kong Company Limited or CMHK (), is a wholly owned subsidiary of

China Mobile China Mobile is the trade name of both China Mobile Limited () and its ultimate controlling shareholder, China Mobile Communications Group Co., Ltd. (, formerly known as China Mobile Communications Corporation, "CMCC"), a Chinese state-ownedSt ...

. The company was incepted in January 1997 and was the first PCS operator to launch such services in

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 Delta i ...

. CMHK is currently the largest telecommunications operator in Hong Kong.

History

In June 1994, the company was first launched and established as PEOPLES Telephone Company Limited in Hong Kong and was awarded a PCS license in 1996 September. In May 2000, it was the first operator in Hong Kong to launch an open portal WAP service. On 25 February 2004, it changed its name to China Resources Peoples Telephone Company Limited (), named by its parent company at that time,

China Resources China Resources Holdings Company Limited (), or simply China Resources, is a Chinese state-owned conglomerate that owns a variety of businesses in Hong Kong and Mainland China. Some of its subsidiaries use the name in the form of the acronym CR ...

. In October 2005, it was acquired by

and renamed to China Mobile Peoples Telephone Company Limited () in April 2006. In March 2006, it was

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and became a fully subsidiary of China Mobile. In December 2008, it was renamed to China Mobile Hong Kong Company Limited but kept its brand name "''Peoples''". In December 2012, China Mobile Hong Kong launched the world's first network TD-LTE/LTE FDD fusion (4G) for roaming. In December 2013, CMHK launched its new corporate brand, plus its commercial brand "''and!''".

Service

Mobile network

As of June 2017, CMHK has 8.274 million subscribers, making them the largest mobile network operator in Hong Kong. As of May 2018, CMHK provided network service 4.5G, 4G LTE (LTE FDD and TD-LTE), 3GHSPA, GPRS and EDGE. As a subsidiary of China Mobile, CMHK has launched a series of cross-border mobile services for customers traveling between

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and around the world.

Home broadband

In 2017, CMHK launched their home broadband services with 3 plans of internet speed selection.

References

External links

Official website
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