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Founded in 2002 , China Telecom is one of the largest data centre providers in the world , with more than 287,000 employees . The company ’ s operations are almost exclusively focused on mainland China . China Telecom has more than 456 data centres in operation ( almost as many as Digital Realty and Equinix combined ) in China alone , and 187 additional data centres across 71 metro hubs internationally . The company offers colocation , hosting , equipment management and backup and disaster recovery services . China Telecom also operates the largest data centre in APAC , the Inner Mongolia Information Park , which has a footprint of more than 10mn square feet .

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