BT is about to enter the China market. Don't the three major operators panic?

Recently, BritishTelecom official website announced that it has become the first international telecommunications company to obtain the national license issued by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China, and at the same time, it has also obtained two business licenses, namely the national IP-VPN license in China and the national Internet service provider (ISP) license in China.

The competition in China is fierce now. It doesn't mean that you can come in if you want. The policy doesn't allow it.

It is reported that this time, BT Communication, the communication company of BT China, obtained the license. These two licenses allow BT to directly sign contracts with global customers in China and charge in RMB.

However, does this indicate that BT will compete with China Mobile, China Telecom and China Unicom in the market? That's not the answer. Zuo Pengfei, an assistant researcher at the Information and Network Economics Office of the Institute of Quantitative and Technical Economics of China Academy of Social Sciences, said: "Telecommunication business involves personal privacy and communication data, and does not belong to the open field promised by the state. BT became the first international operator to obtain a telecom license in China, which means that it can provide network services and information services for China enterprises and ordinary users. "

According to the report "Development of Foreign-invested Telecom Enterprises (20 18)" issued by China Institute of Information and Communication, the telecom business operated by foreign businessmen in China is mainly in the field of value-added telecom business. By the end of 20 18, there were 12 1 foreign-invested telecom enterprises, of which 86 were approved by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.

As early as 20 16, the General Office of the State Council issued the Notice on Further Improving the Work Related to Private Investment, which mentioned that it is necessary to further open access to basic telecommunications operations and other fields, cancel various explicit or implicit thresholds in key areas such as infrastructure and public utilities, and promote fair competition. At the same time, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has also issued a number of documents to promote the open testing of broadband access network services. Now it seems that this policy has made good progress.

Regarding this visit to China, BasBurger, CEO of BT Global Services, said: "Thanks to the cooperation between the Chinese and British governments, we have obtained a national value-added telecommunications business license in China, so that we can expand our scale and meet the needs of global customers."

At present, BT's customers in China include multinational companies such as Procter & Gamble, Novartis, Unilever and Reuters, providing them with global network IT services. In addition, BT also provides network IT services covering the Asia-Pacific region and even the whole world for Huawei, Air China, Sinopec and ZTE.