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China Telecom is the largest fixed line service and third largest mobile telecommunication provider in China. It is listed in Hong Kong and New York, but is controlled by the Chinese government.
A deep pool of household savings will encourage more Chinese companies to tap the domestic market, a virtuous circle adding depths to Chinese capital markets while making the US less attractive.
Attempt by companies to relist may be seen as testing the water with new US President Joe Biden and Wall Street, and much may depend on the final decision.
With only days to go before he steps down, the US president continues to hurt the interests of both Beijing and Washington, but the financial cloud may yet have a silver lining for Hong Kong.
Donald Trump would be better off embracing Chinese innovation than persisting with a deeply flawed approach at a time of connected networks and global supply chains.
The International Data Economy Industrial Park aims to attract more than 100 leading data companies with a combined output of over 100 billion yuan by 2025.
Huawei says 5.5G can offer a tenfold increase in speed over existing networks, providing more efficient power consumption for consumer and industrial uses.
Chinese tech giants are the main attraction at the three-day World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai, as US firms maintain their distance.
The new Computing for the Future at Fudan platform was designed to train large language models for the purpose of scientific research.
Industry executives say 5G has changed the lives of its users, enabling new capabilities such as live-streaming e-commerce from rural farmland.
MWC Shanghai, the regional edition of the world’s largest mobile communications industry trade show, marks its first decade in China this year.
Flurry of public appeals is part of drive to combat rampant online fraud by scaling down mobile users’ exposure to platforms seen as hard to police.
Investment comes as development of AI technology, especially evident in the recent frenzy around ChatGPT-like services, is fuelling demand for computational power.
The yuan-traded shares of 150 dual-listed companies commanded a 42 per cent premium over their Hong Kong-listed shares this month, versus a 10-year average of 26 per cent.
China Telecom’s cloud unit CTYun is testing self-developed large language models with plans to launch a service ‘in the near future’.
China Unicom, the country’s third-largest wireless network operator, expects to complete technical research and launch early ‘application scenarios’ for 6G mobile technology by 2025.
China Mobile’s market capitalisation is 2.1 trillion yuan (US$304.8 billion), second only to Kweichow Moutai’s 2.2 trillion yuan, as traders bet the mobile-network operator will benefit from Beijing’s plan to digitise the economy.
China’s three telecom operators, panned as value destroyers in stock markets, are no longer market laggards. Stock returns this year are among the best in the world. Here’s why.
Alibaba Cloud posted a 3 per cent year-on-year revenue increase in the December quarter, marking the subsidiary’s slowest growth last year.
The southern tech hub’s digital infrastructure action plan involves the buildout of 10,000 new 5G base stations this year.
Some 280 firefighters sent to blaze in China Telecom building on Friday afternoon.
Nokia and Ericsson led telecoms equipment sales outside China in 2021, as Huawei struggled with US sanctions and barred from other major 5G markets.
While China’s 5G mobile network is already the world’s biggest, MIIT head Xiao Yaqing said the existing number of base stations ‘is not enough’.
NetEase founder William Ding Lei says the company is readying the technologies needed to build the metaverse, as Tencent, Baidu and others also express interest in the buzzy new concept.
China Mobile, China Telecom and China Unicom are expected to roll out their new 5G messaging service, with electronic payment function, this month.
Cracks in China Telecom’s onshore stock, so soon after its trading debut on Friday, spell gloom for investors thinking about buying the next big one from rival China Mobile.
The world’s largest wireless network operator posted a net profit of US$9.1 billion in the six months through June, up 6 per cent from a year ago.
Other investors include mostly units of large state-backed companies, such as the nation’s dominant power distributor State Grid Corporation of China.
China Telecom was one of four companies delisted in New York as part of a US blacklisting over purported ties to the Chinese military.
The widely used travel history tracking app crashed on Monday morning, causing chaos for commuters in many places across the country.
Huawei and ZTE are helping companies increase energy efficiency and are supporting renewable energy projects with their information and communications technology.
The New York Stock Exchange rejected the appeals by China Mobile, China Unicom (Hong Kong), and China Telecom to remain on the US stock exchange.
Commerce Department subpoenas ‘multiple’ Chinese information tech companies, while the FCC agrees that two Chinese carriers have not proved their independence from Beijing.