China Mobile Hong Kong Company Limited or CMHK (), 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.
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.
In October 2005, it acquired China Mobile and changed its name to China Mobile Peoples Telephone Company Limited () 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.
In December 2013, CMHK launched its new corporate brand, plus its commercial brand "and!".
Service
Mobile network
+Frequencies used on CMHK in Hong Kong Frequency Frequency Width Protocol Notes 900 MHz (905~910;950~955) 2*5 MHz GSM/LTE 1800 MHz (1750~1760;1845~1855)+(1770~1780;1865~1875) 2*20 MHz (not contiguous) GSM/LTE 2100 MHz (1925.3–1935.2;2115.3–2125.2 ) 2*10 MHz LTE/3G 2x5MHz 3G freq: 2127.6;1937.6 rent PCCW-HKT 2300 MHz (2330~2360) 30 MHz TD-LTE 20+10 Carrier aggregation 2600 MHz (2670-2690;2550-2570) 2x20MHz LTE swap spectrum with HKT 3.5 GHz (3380-3460) 80 MHz 5G NR 4.9 GHz (4800-4880) 80 MHz
As of June 2017, CMHK has 8.274 million subscribers, making them the largest mobile network operator in Hong Kong.China Mobile group only releases annual report of its total subscribers which is around 866 million users as of June 2017, which includes mainland China operations and Hong Kong operations. With the total number of mobile users in Hong Kong being over 17 million, and subtracting subscribers of other three networks in Hong Kong, the results are remaining subscribers of CMHK, which is around 8 million users. 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 Hong Kong, Mainland China and around the world.
From June 2025, 3G network service of CMHK was ceased operation.
Effective from 12:00 am on 23 June 2026, CMHK was ceased 2G mobile network to focus resources on advancing leading network technologies such as 4G and 5G. Home broadband In 2017, CMHK launched their home broadband services with 3 plans of internet speed selection.
References
External links
Official website