History
Excelcomindo was established on 6 October 1989 under the name of PT Grahametropolitan Lestari and originally was a trading and general services company.
XL became the first private mobile services operator in the country, starting commercial operations on 8 October 1996.
On 2009, XL was bought by the Axiata Group which caused a change of logos. The XL letters was made blue, and an Axiata tag was added on the logo.
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