British Telecom (BT) announced that it has become the first international telecommunications company to receive a national license issued by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China.
According to the news, BT's two value-added licenses are China's national IP-VPN license and China's national Internet Service Provider (ISP) license. The two “licenses” will allow BT's communications companies in China to directly contract with their global customers in China and charge in RMB.
Bas Burger, CEO of BT Global Services, said: "As a result of the cooperation between the Chinese government and the UK government, it is now able to provide nationwide services in China, which can scale up and significantly simplify the provision of connectivity and other communications in local services and charges. The process of service."
BT's official website shows that China is a diversified market that is undergoing a major transformation. It is rapidly evolving from a traditional low-cost manufacturing country to an emerging market driven by fashion luxury brands, innovation, growing front-end businesses, and high-value market players.
In fact, BT has entered the Chinese market since 1995 and is now expanding in size. Its official website shows that its network covers more than 330 cities across China, and has close strategic partnerships with China Mobile and China Unicom.
BT's customers in China are multinational companies such as Procter & Gamble, Novartis, Unilever and Reuters, which provide global IT services to these companies. It also serves China's emerging multinational customers, such as Huawei, Air China, Sinopec, and ZTE, providing network IT services covering the Asia-Pacific region and the world to help them expand and accelerate their globalization.