CITIC Telecom International Holdings Limited is a telecommunication

Telecommunication

Telecommunication is the transmission of information over significant distances to communicate. In earlier times, telecommunications involved the use of visual signals, such as beacons, smoke signals, semaphore telegraphs, signal flags, and optical heliographs, or audio messages via coded...

 vendor to provide telecom services in the Asia Pacific including voice

Voice

Voice may refer to:* Human voice* Voice control or voice activation* Writer's voice* Voice acting* Voice vote* Voice message-In film:* Voice , a 2005 South Korean film* The Voice , a 2010 Turkish horror film directed by Ümit Ünal...

 service, mobile SMS

SMS

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 and other value-added services, data service and telecom solutions to telecom operators and ISP.

It was established in Hong Kong

Hong Kong

Hong Kong is one of two Special Administrative Regions of the People's Republic of China , the other being Macau. A city-state situated on China's south coast and enclosed by the Pearl River Delta and South China Sea, it is renowned for its expansive skyline and deep natural harbour...

 in 1999 and was listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange

Hong Kong Stock Exchange

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 in 2007. It is parented

Parent company

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 by CITIC Pacific

CITIC Pacific

CITIC Pacific is a Hong Kong-based conglomerate holding company headquartered in the CITIC Tower, Admiralty, Hong Kong. It is 58% owned by the state-owned Citic Group in Beijing and has shareholders around the world.-Business areas:...

, a Hong Kong-based Chinese conglomerate

Conglomerate (company)

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 company, since 2000.

External links

• CITIC Telecom International