PCCW Mobile

For the current mobile network operator of the PCCW Group in Hong Kong, see CSL 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 company Sunday Communications until 2006.

PCCW Mobile HK

Trade name	SUNDAY (former trading name)
Formerly	Mandarin Communications
Company type	subsidiary
Industry	Mobile communication
Founded	24 November 1994 (1994-11-24) in British Hong Kong
Defunct	2014
Fate	merged with CSL Limited(Hong Kong)
Successor	CSL Mobile
Headquarters	Hong Kong , Hong Kong
Area served	Hong Kong
Owner	HKT (100%)
Parent	HKT
former Chinese name (Mandarin Communications era)
Traditional Chinese	匯亞通訊
Transcriptions
Website	www.pccwmobile.com

The company also owned the license of internet service provider and international direct dialing of Hong Kong.^[1]

History

PCCW Mobile HK, previously known as "Mandarin Communications"^[2] (registered Chinese name 匯亞通訊有限公司;^[2] trading as SUNDAY^[3]), was a Hong Kong company that was incorporated in 1994. Mandarin Communications launched its 2G GSM 1800 network in 1997.^{[4][non-primary source needed]}

Mandarin Communications was a subsidiary of the listed company Sunday Communications since 2000. In 2004, the company signed a contract with Huawei, a Chinese telecommunications company, for the supply and installation of a 3G network to SUNDAY,^[5] as well as purchasing the shares of its parent company Sunday Communications.^[6] The group acquired the 3G license of Hong Kong via Sunday 3G (Hong Kong) Limited (stylized as SUNDAY 3G),^[7][8] a wholly owned subsidiary of Mandarin Communications.^[1]

However, the parent company, Sunday Communications, was acquired by PCCW in 2005,^[9] and the subsidiary, Mandarin Communications, was renamed to "PCCW Mobile HK Limited" in 2007,^[2] after Sunday Communications selling Mandarin Communications and other businesses to its parent company in 2006.^{[10][non-primary source needed]} PCCW made this acquisition to return to mobile business after it sold Hong Kong CSL Limited to Australia's Telstra in 2001–02.^[11][12]

Nevertheless, after PCCW, via its subsidiary HKT, re-acquired CSL (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,^{[13][14][15][16]} PCCW ceased to use the brand PCCW in its mobile network operator services, which the legal person of PCCW Mobile HK was renamed to CSL Mobile Limited instead, in 2014.^{[2][17][non-primary source needed]}