Private company

China Mobile Hong Kong

China Mobile Hong Kong Company Limited or CMHK (Chinese: 中國移動香港有限公司), is a wholly owned subsidiary of China Mobile.1

Last updated Oct 18, 2026.

Overview

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China Mobile Hong Kong Company Limited or CMHK (Chinese: 中國移動香港有限公司), is a wholly owned subsidiary of China Mobile. The company was incepted in January 1997 and was the first PCS operator to launch such services in Hong Kong. CMHK is currently the largest telecommunications operator in Hong Kong.2

How it started

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 (華潤萬眾香港有限公司), named by its parent company at that time, China Resources.

In October 2005, it acquired China Mobile and changed its name to China Mobile Peoples Telephone Company Limited (中國移動萬眾電話有限公司) in April 2006. In March 2006, it was delisted and became a fully subsidiary of China Mobile.

In December 2008, it changed its name 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.

From Wikipedia’s article on China Mobile Hong Kong, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.2

Timeline

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