China Telecom Corp Ltd
ZCH
Company Profile
Business description
China Telecom is the largest fixed-line operator in China, originally covering 21 southern provinces but now operating nationally. It has 201 million broadband customers, and 439 million wireless subscribers, having overtaken China Unicom to become the second-largest wireless operator in China behind China Mobile. The firm is increasing its cross-selling of products and seeing strong growth from industrial digitization services, such as internet data centers and cloud computing. Its internet data center business is already the largest in China and it is expanding overseas.
Contact
31 Jinrong Street
Xicheng District
Beijing100033
CHNT: +86 1058501800
Sector
Communication Services
Stock type
Sensitive
Industry
Telecom Services
Fiscal Year End
31 December 2026
Employees
277,674
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| DAX 40 | 22,562.88 | 262.13 | 1.18% |
| Dow JONES (US) | 45,206.54 | 39.90 | 0.09% |
| FTSE 100 | 10,127.96 | 160.61 | 1.61% |
| HKSE | 24,750.79 | 201.09 | -0.81% |
| NASDAQ | 20,760.43 | 187.93 | -0.90% |
| Nikkei 225 | 51,885.85 | 1,487.22 | -2.79% |
| NZX 50 Index | 12,748.92 | 186.47 | -1.44% |
| S&P 500 | 6,337.46 | 31.39 | -0.49% |
| S&P/ASX 200 | 8,461.00 | 0.10 | 0.00% |
| SSE Composite Index | 3,923.29 | 9.56 | 0.24% |