China Telecom Corp Ltd

601728

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 200 million broadband customers, and 437 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
    CHN

    T: +86 1058501800

    E: [email protected]

    https://www.chinatelecom-h.com

  • Sector

    Communication Services

    Stock type

    Sensitive

  • Industry

    Telecom Services

    Fiscal Year End

    31 December 2026

    Employees

    277,674

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