Overview
China Telecom (HKEX: 0728) is a Chinese state-owned telecommunications operator providing 5G infrastructure for robotics applications including remote robotic surgery, private 5G networks for humanoid robots, and 5G-connected quadruped robots. The company has built over 16,000 private 5G networks supporting tens of thousands of industrial applications, and collaborates with AgiBot and DEEP Robotics on robotics-specific 5G solutions.
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- None on file
- Active incidents
- None on file
Key facts
HQ
5G infrastructure
Data & sources
Web sources
1
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Partnerships
Every company China Telecom has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Relationships
Current leadership (1)
- Ke Ruiwen Chairman & CEOsecondary-verified
Safety record
No incidents on record for China Telecom.
Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.
Full safety record: incidents, sourcing, and exposure data →
Recent coverage
China Telecom in third-party press
Financial state
- Reporting basis
- private_reported
- Lifecycle stage
- mature
- Counterparty risk class
- low
Each numeric field carries its own basis marker. Aggregators report a number; this surface preserves the source class so verification depth travels with the value.
Partnerships
2 total · 2 operating
Every company China Telecom has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
All 2 partnerships
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- china-telecom x awswithAWS976technology—operating
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Record createdJun 26, 2026
Added to the verified registry
Sources (1)
Common questions
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Methodology: Verified · 1 source (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-08-15
Verification posture
Verified
Low confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-08-15
Sources by quality tier
- 1
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for China Telecom.In the press
Recent coverage mentioning China Telecom from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
China Telecom Open-Sources Xing4.0-29B-A4B Agentic MoE Trained End-to-End on Ascend
China Telecom AI released Xing4.0-29B-A4B, a 29B-parameter Mixture-of-Experts model with 4B active parameters and 256K context, trained end-to-end on Ascend NPUs with MindSpore…
ZTE and Tianyi Digital Life jointly unveil flagship home AI router
PARTNER CONTENT: Collaborating to advance China Telecom's “Better Home” ecosystem, the joint launch introduces a 2000 Mbps Wi-Fi 7 hub driven by core AI connection, sensing, and…
5G-Advanced Facilitates Multi-Robot Collaboration — ZTE & China Telecom Case Study
GSMA case study on how China Telecom, ZTE, DroidUp, and AgiBot jointly developed EasyOn·Robot, a next-generation private 5G-Advanced solution designed for multi-robot…
China Telecom Shanghai collaborates with ZTE and industrial partners to deploy 5G-A EasyOn·Robot private network at WAIC 2025
China Telecom Shanghai, ZTE, DroidUp, and AgiBot jointly deployed the EasyOn·Robot private 5G-A network enabling multi-robot collaboration at the World Artificial Intelligence…
Remote surgery using robots advances with 5G tests in China
The Robot Report covers Beijing Jishuitan Hospital's remote robotic surgery using China Telecom's 5G network, performing orthopedic procedures on patients in distant provinces.
China Telecom's 5G Helped Beijing Jishuitan Hospital Perform the World's First Remote Robotic Surgery
Surgeons at Beijing Jishuitan Hospital used China Telecom's 5G network to remotely control orthopedic surgery robots operating on patients in two different hospitals…
Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /companies/china-telecom.md
- RSS feed: /companies/china-telecom/feed.xml
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/companies/f441ffed-ebcc-46ce-83e4-40791cbc4e2f
- Revision history: /companies/china-telecom/history
- Data documentation: /data
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Heat Index
Serious54/100
A composite of competitive footprint, funding, press velocity, active partnerships, and supply-chain edges. Different from the Intelligence score below (which is per-form-factor productization). Non-robotics companies cap at 25.
Reality vs attention
Not enough verified signal yet to place China Telecom against peers. Reality and attention percentiles publish once the underlying record clears its data floor.
6-month trend
Analysis
Limited public visibility and press coverage relative to peers.
Signal flags
Dimension breakdown
Verified signal
Attention (reach, not merit)
DEPLOY Intelligence scores are computed from verified registry data: confirmed deployments, disclosed funding rounds, regulatory filings, active job listings, video viewership, and press coverage. Confidence ratings reflect data availability. Scores update nightly.
DEPLOY Indices — verified vs claimed
Last computed: Oct 5, 2026