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Integrated Information Applications

Best Tone
This is a series of value-added information services provided by China Telecom based on the telephone number information service, providing customers with a kind of facilitative service that relates to "clothing, dining, housing, traveling and other consumptions". By dialing the service access number 114/118114, a customer can be provided with such information as food and beverage availability, tourist advice, road guide, hotel reservation and daily consumption articles. Through this service, basic corporate information, service range and product information of registered enterprises can be popularized to the public, and the enterprises can be benefited from reputation enhancement and business opportunity development.

The "Best Tone" mainly includes the following four categories of services: Category 1. Industry first enquiry: providing the enquired with such value-added services as industry first enquiry, enquiry on multiple conditions and enquiry information analyses; Category II. Enquiry transit: providing the enquirer with such value-added services as call transit, short message/facsimile number reporting, addresses and road guide; Category III. Information publication: providing the enquired with enterprise information dissemination service while providing the enquirer with information enquiry service that is based on information of the enquired; Category IV. Communications assistance: providing business and individual customers with such value-added services as private telephone directory management, enterprise switchboard, personal secretary and automatic traffic transit.

Biz Navigator
This is a service brand launched by China Telecom for its enterprise customers and is an actual initiative for supporting China Telecom's strategic transformation and especially the further implementation of the customer-centered sales service mode. Services provided by this "Biz Navigator" include: information applications, communications applications and supporting services, covering such telecom-grade high-quality services as network applications, management applications and communications applications which are based on the Internet network as well as maintenance agent, management agent and system integration, etc.

V-Net
This is a unified brand for China Telecom's Internet application services. By utilizing China Telecom's network and customer resources in the network, taking the advantages of "one point access can enjoy whole-network service", "one-point authentication can enjoy a whole network pass" and "one-point settlement can benefit the whole network", the V-net concentrates lots of contents and applications provided by SPs and provides customers with rich and colourful content and application services such as movies, education programmes, games and other entertainments. The V-net is customers' "one-stop broadband information and entertainment center". Meanwhile, the V-net can serve as a payment means to enable customers to pay all of those they should pay conveniently and quickly.

IDC (Internet Data Center)
In order to meet service requirements from the broad masses of customers, China Telecom has set up in many places of this kind of centers, occupying dozens of thousands square meters and are operated and maintained by some special professionals. At the same time, China Telecom has set up four backbone IDCs in Beijing, Guangzhou, Shanghai and Xi'an respectively, which can provide one-stop services for domestic and overseas group users, ICPs, ISPs and ASPs and the services include: main machine management under trusteeship, whole machine lease and value-added services, etc.

New Video Communications
This is a long-distance real-time interactive communications service for transmitting image, voice and data, aiming to realize multimedia video conferences. This service is very much appropriate to the following: a conference between a company and its branches which are located in difference places, between a department of the corporation and its correspondent departments which are located in a number of places and intra organizational conference of a governmental organization; distance-education, distance-training, telemedicine; security monitoring for a big building; distance-dispatching and command as well as news report broadcast, etc.

Mega Eye
As a video network monitoring service, this is a new service launched by China Telecom based on its broadband networks, providing such value-added services as remote monitoring, transmission, storage and management of images. By using the ubiquity of China Telecom's broadband networks, this system enables scattered and independent image collecting points to be networked together so that crossing-area unified monitoring, storage and management can be realized and resources can be shared. Consequently, it provides managers/decision-makers with an entirely new, objectively visual and range-extended auditory and vision management tool that can help improve work effectiveness. Through a secondary application development, this service might provide some new means for resource re-utilization.

IPTV
Using the TV receiver and the set-top box as major terminal equipment, the IPTV is a broadband value-added service based on the telecom broadband network. With the market and technology developments, The IPTV will gradually open such communications services as interactive games, information services, audio and video broadcast, audio and video-on-demand, Karaoke, distance education, interactive advertisement, record and broadcast, etc. Customers can enjoy high-quality digital media services. Customers can have extensive freedom to select video programs provided at websites in the IP network so that substantial interaction between the media provider and the media consumer can be realized.

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