In the 1990s, CSL was a company of
PCCW (formerly
HKT). In 2002, PCCW sold CSL. and setting up a new brand "
PCCW Mobile". In 2014, HKT (a member of PCCW Group) acquired CSL New World Mobility and its subsidiaries such as CSL Limited and
New World Mobility. In 2014, the legal person of
PCCW Mobile was renamed into CSL Mobile Limited. 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. • July 1993: CSL launches its GSM service. • 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 &
New World PCS merge to become the CSL New World Mobility. The enlarged group owned the brands CSL, 1010, One2Free and
New World Mobility, and was majority owned by
Telstra;
New World Mobile Holdings 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, 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 21 Mbit/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, 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
New World Mobility was renamed to
Sun Mobile, and owned by HKT and • December 2014: CSL launches the first
LTE Advanced network in Hong Kong. • April 2020: Become one of the three operators in Hong Kong to launch 5G network. == Network ==