By Telecom Lead Team: CT Americas, an international
subsidiary of China Telecom, has decided to explore the US retail market in
2012.
There is a huge market potential in mobile and data
communication service and this is the market we must work on,” said Tan
Yijun, president of China Telecom Americas (CT Americas).
In January, CT Americas launched its branded mobile
service in Chicago. The cell phones with this branded mobile service will carry
one SIM card with two numbers: one Chinese and one US cell number.
The new service is targeting frequent business travelers,
long-term visitors and students. The international calling rate will be lower
than US local operators, but slightly higher than a calling card.
The company will promote the services in Los Angeles and
New York – major destinations for Chinese visitors and where the majority of
Chinese-Americans live.
CT Americas focuses on serving multinational companies,
providing leased-line services, Internet services, Internet data centers,
managed services and voice wholesale service.
The company’s major clients are Chinese enterprises in
the US such as Bank of China and Sinopec, and US corporations with investment
in China, including Microsoft and Bank of America.
In addition, CT Americas announced that it will further
expand its business in Central and South America, forging strategic
partnerships with local operators and providing service to public users.
“Our overseas expansion will try to reach out to
those non-China markets, such as the telecommunication solutions between North
America and South America, based not on our resources in China, but on our
overseas infrastructure,” Tan added.
Last month, Cisco announced that China Telecom Americas
is greatly expanding its network based on the Cisco Internet Protocol
Next-Generation Network (IP NGN) architecture.
