R&D Strategy

Taking into account the new demand of all-service operation and mobile service development, China Telecom carried out and further deepened its new creative informatization strategy of focusing on the corporate customers, and continued its R&D transformation. Focusing on the high-end and middle-end customers demands and keeping in mind the all-service requirement and integrated creativeness, China Telecom optimized its R&D resource to create more values, and develop more elite items in support of the differential operation such that the transition from¡°the usefulness¡± to the¡°customers¡¯likeness¡±could be realized.

R&D Responsibility

In line with the corporate business development strategies and the technological development trends, China Telecom draws up technical development strategies and policies, does research and development of new services and products, puts forth new services and products that possess self-reliant intellectual property rights; studies and formulates technical and system standards; undertakes laboratory testing and experimental networking verifications on new technologies, new equipment and new services; establishes O&M supporting systems and is responsible for the technical support for the backbone equipment in China Telecom's networks; provides information services and publishes various relative publications, etc..

R&D Capabilities

So far, China Telecom has set up three R&D institutes which are Beijing Research Institute, Guangzhou Research Institute and Shanghai Research Institute. After many years continuous investment, a number of technologically first-class laboratories and technical centers with state-of-the-art facilities have been set up, covering the R&D in the following fields: fiber optic transport network, network access and network switching; data and multimedia; cyber security and mobile communications.

Among the three R&D institutes located in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, the R&D network resources could be shared together with the help of the interconnection through the optical fiber transmission system at the speed of 155Mbit/s.

China Telecom was certified as the State Innovative Experiental Enterprise. The project of the¡°Carrier-Class Digital Media Network Project and Service Development¡±was granted with the National Sci-Tech Progress Award ¡±for the first time in the modern service industry.

R&D Keystones

China Telecom strives to break through the key technology for the corporate development and promotes the close links between the R&D work and the business revenue to meet the corporate new strategy of focusing on the customers` informatization. China Telecom has made important progress in the 3G mobile technology and its products and services, and breakthrough in the commercial promotion for the new functions and services on the products such as My e-Home, BizNavigator terminals, IPTV, Global Eyes, Best Tone, and other ICT services. China Telecom continues its investment on the R&D work for the mobile technology, internet services and focuses on the end customers` demands and experiences. Taking the opportunity of providing all-service to the customers, China Telecom grasps the key areas to provide the enterprise customers with the product development, network operation, sales channels, total solutions, etc., and at the same time to push forward the development of the products in the labs which will be brought to the market as quickly as possible to get economic benefits. China Telecom greatly support the product development at every check point to make sure the product developed will be quickly applied on the whole network and to increase the contribution rate of the R&D product to the corporate operation.