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Dec 13, 1961 British Hong Kong, United Kingdom 62 years old
Hong Kong businessman
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About Ricky Wong Hong Kong Businessman
- Ricky Wong Wai-kay (Chinese: ???; born 13 December 1961 in Hong Kong) is a telecom and media entrepreneur in Hong Kong.
- He is the chairman and founder of Hong Kong Television Network, and the founder of Hong Kong Broadband Network.
- He is also a member of the Board of Trustees, United College, the Chinese University of Hong Kong. As an entrepreneur in the telecommunications and technology industries, Wong set up City Telecom (H.K.) Limited (CTI) in 1992, providing alternative international direct dialing (IDD) services at affordable tariffs which broke the predominant market monopoly.
- In 1999, he established Hong Kong Broadband Network Limited, building a territory-wide fibre network to provide super high speed broadband, telephone and IP-TV services, and led the company to become the second largest IP provider in Hong Kong.
- In 2010, Wong was voted the 60th most powerful person in Global Telecoms Business by the Global Telecom Business Magazine. In 2009, Wong's CTI applied for a domestic free television program service licence and in 2012, he disposed all telecom businesses to focus on the development of his television and multimedia businesses, eventually renaming CTI to Hong Kong Television Network (HKTV).
- However, HKTV's application was subsequently rejected in October 2013, prompting Wong to lead HKTV towards the mobile TV and internet shopping industries. A former member of the Liberal Party in the 1990s, Wong surrendered his Canadian citizenship and contested the 2016 legislative election in the Hong Kong Island constituency, with the objective to oust Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying, but failed to win a seat.
