China Telecom
- Chinese name
- 中国电信
- Pinyin
- Registered name
- 中国电信股份有限公司
- Unified Social Credit Code
9111000071093019X7registered in Beijing 北京- U.S. restrictions
Telecom networks and the call itself · Customer service and contact centre
China Telecom (中国电信股份有限公司) is the listed operating company of the China Telecom group, traded in Shanghai (601728) and Hong Kong (0728); its parent is China Telecom Group Co., Ltd. (中国电信集团有限公司), owned by SASAC. It runs the group’s fixed-line, mobile and broadband services through provincial branches such as Beijing Telecom and Sichuan Telecom.
Through its digital-intelligence branch (中国电信股份有限公司数字智能科技分公司) it filed the China Telecom digital-human generation algorithm (中国电信数字人生成算法) with the Cyberspace Administration of China; it entered the national list of filed deep-synthesis algorithms in January 2024 for its digital-human customer service, the Tianyi (天翼) smart assistant and a digital-human production platform, and generates digital-human video from text, audio and images. The company holds digital-human patents, among them methods for 3D digital-human lip driving (WO2024131879A1), generating cartoon digital humans (CN115880400B) and digital-human-driven video (CN116030825A). Its subscribers can add a communication assistant digital human DIY pack (通信助理数字人DIY包) (5 yuan a month) to its call assistant, which gives a visual digital-human assistant with voice cloning and AIGC customisation. Its AI research institute TeleAI (中国电信人工智能研究院), a Shanghai branch registered in May 2024, develops the Xingchen (星辰) models with China Telecom AI; its Sichuan branch built, with both, the 3D digital panda Su Lin (苏琳) for tourism in Aba, Sichuan, and its Beijing branch builds labelled datasets for digital-human customer service with Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications.
Other China Telecom digital-human work is done by group companies with their own records: China Telecom AI (天翼AI), the group’s AI company; China Telecom Cloud (CTYun); and Tianyi Video Media, developer of the Tianyi Ultra HD (天翼超高清) video app.