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Community Services Framework Agreement

 Exhibit 4.17 
 Summary 
 of 
 Community Services Framework Agreement 
 Between 
 Registrant 
 and 
 China Telecom Group 
 dated August 30, 2006 
 Pursuant to the Community Services Framework Agreement, the Provincial Subsisting Companies will provide the Twenty Provincial Telecom Companies with services relating
to culture, education, property management, vehicle service, health and medical care, hotel and conference service, community and sanitary service. The pricing terms for such services are as follows: (1) For services whose prices are determined
by the government, the pricing of such services should follow government-set pricing. (2) For services whose pricing is guided by the government, their prices should be determined with reference to the government-guided prices. (3) For
services that do not have any government-set or government-guided prices but have market rates, their prices should be determined by referring to the market rates. (4) For those services that have none of the government-set, government-guided
prices or market rates, the two parties should determine the prices through negotiation. However, the negotiated prices should be determined by reasonable costs pus reasonable profits. “Reasonable costs” refer to the costs determined by
the two parties through negotiation. “Government-set prices” refer to the prices set forth by the pricing authorities or other relevant authorities of the government within their pricing power and the scope of products and services they
are authorized to set prices for in accordance with the Price Law of the People’s Republic of China. “Government-guided prices” refer to the prices determined by the operators under the guidance of the standard prices and
floating scope set forth by the pricing authorities or other relevant authorities of the government within their pricing power and pricing scope in accordance with the Price Law of the People’s Republic of China. “Market rate”
refers to the price set forth by the operator and formed through market competition. The market rate is determined in the following order: (1) The price asked for by any independent third party provider of that type of service under normal
transactional circumstances at that time in the same or neighboring region where the service is provided; or (2) The price asked for by any independent third party provider of that type of service under normal transactional circumstances at
that time in China. The Community Services Framework Agreement will expire on 31 December 2007, and may be renewed for further periods of three years upon expiration without limit in the number of renewals, unless either party provides notice
of non-renewal in writing to the opposite party three months prior to the end of the relevant term.Ancillary Telecommunications Service Framework Agreement

 Exhibit 4.18 
 Summary 
 of 
 Ancillary Telecommunications Service Framework Agreement 
 Between 
 Registrant 
 and 
 China Telecom Group 
 dated August 30, 2006

 Pursuant to the Ancillary Telecommunications Services Framework Agreement, the Provincial Subsisting Companies agree to provide the Twenty Provincial
Telecom Companies with certain repair and maintenance services, including repair of telecommunications equipment, maintenance of fire equipment and telephone booths, as well as other customer services. The pricing terms for such services are as
follows: (1) For services whose prices are determined by the government, the pricing of such services should follow government-set pricing. (2) For services whose pricing is guided by the government, their prices should be determined with
reference to the government-guided prices. (3) For services that do not have any government-set or government-guided prices but have market rates, their prices should be determined by referring to the market rates. (4) For those services
that have none of the government-set, government-guided prices or market rates, the two parties should determine the prices through negotiation. However, the negotiated prices should be determined by reasonable costs pus reasonable profits.
“Reasonable costs” refer to the costs determined by the two parties through negotiation. “Government-set prices” refer to the prices set forth by the pricing authorities or other relevant authorities of the government within
their pricing power and the scope of products and services they are authorized to set prices for in accordance with the Price Law of the People’s Republic of China. “Government-guided prices” refer to the prices determined by
the operators under the guidance of the standard prices and floating scope set forth by the pricing authorities or other relevant authorities of the government within their pricing power and pricing scope in accordance with the Price Law of the
People’s Republic of China. “Market rate” refers to the price set forth by the operator and formed through market competition. The market rate is determined in the following order: (1) The price asked for by any independent
third party provider of that type of service under normal transactional circumstances at that time in the same or neighboring region where the service is provided; or (2) The price asked for by any independent third party provider of that type
of service under normal transactional circumstances at that time in China. The Ancillary Telecommunications Services Framework Agreement will expire on 31 December 2007, and may be renewed for further periods of three years upon expiration
without limit in the number of renewals, unless either party provides notice of non-renewal in writing to the opposite party three months prior to the end of the relevant term.Strategic Agreement

 Exhibit 4.19 
 Summary 
 of 
 Strategic Agreement 
 Between 
 China Telecom Corp Ltd 
 and 
 China Communications Service Corporation Limited 
 dated August 30, 2006 
 Our Company entered into a Strategic Agreement with China Communications Service Corporation Limited on August 30, 2006. Based on the agreement and in order to
achieve the strategic goals of each party, both parties agree to establish strategic cooperation in their existing business areas and some possible business areas in future in line with the principles of mutual benefit, win-win cooperation and
mutual supplement. 
 Agreement period: This strategic agreement went into effect on the date of approval by the independent shareholders of our Company and
will be in effect for three years since then. This strategic agreement will extend automatically for another three year upon expiration and there is no limit to the times of such extension unless either party informs the other party that it will not
extend the agreement six months in advance of the expiration date. 
 Scope of the strategic cooperation: Pursuant to the terms and conditions of the
Strategic Agreement, the business areas of the strategic alliance between the two parties include design, implementation and supervision of the communications engineering, maintenance management service, system integration for VIP clients,
informationalization services for SMEs, information services, sales channel and sales representative service, usage of telecommunication and other new businesses arising from time to time which are appropriate for the collaboration between the two
parties. Either party that provides services shall give priority to the other party when providing services under the Strategic Agreement to the other party and any independent third party on equal terms. The services set forth above shall comply
with the related standards of China or the standards agreed by both parties, and shall be on terms no less favourable than those available to any third parties to which the same or similar services are provided by either party. Without breaching the
requirements under PRC laws, in respect of the same services, where the terms and conditions of services provided by either party of the Strategic Agreement are the same as those provided by an independent third party, the party under the Strategic
Agreement shall have the priority to be appointed as the service provider by the other party. 
 Our Company pledges that within three years since the date
when the strategic agreement went into effect, services in terms of design, implementation and supervision of the communications 

 
engineering it buys from China Communications shall count for no less than 12.5% of the annual total amount of capital expenditure of the wholly-owned
subsidiaries of our Company under the Strategic Agreement. China Communications pledges that (a) China Communications shall offer no less than 5% discount based on the applicable price standard for the services it provides to our Company;
(b) if a lack of its ability to provide services occurs, it shall, in accordance with the development needs of our Company, give priority to providing our Company with services in terms of design, implementation and supervision of the
communications engineering on equal terms; (c) it shall make full use of its own business advantages to provide our Company with quality services up to our standard, and shall make investment in terms of such resources as human resources,
equipment and capital to develop its such abilities to provide the services needed by our Company as technological upgrading and acquisition of new qualifications, etc.; (d) the services in terms of design, implementation and supervision of the
communications engineering it shall provide to our Company are comprehensive and all-round package services and it pledges to provide through quality control. 
 Our Company pledges that within three years since the date when the strategic agreement went into effect, on terms similar to those offered by other service providers, our Company shall buy maintenance management service worth no less than
1.33 billion RMB yuan from China Communications. China Communications pledges to provide our Company with high-quality, professional maintenance management service, taking advantage of its professionalism and scale operation, and to help our Company
achieve the goal of lowering cost expenditure. 
 Our company pledges that during the strategic transformation of our Company from a traditional basic
telecommunication operator to a comprehensive information service provider and the exploration of other businesses, without breaching the requirements under PRC laws, for other services appropriate for the collaboration between the two parties (e.g.
client-oriented system integration, comprehensive information solution, call center, value-added services provided over wireline telephone networks, value-added services provided over mobile networks, value-added services provided over Internet
networks, etc.), the terms and conditions of which provided by China Communications are the same as those provided by any independent third party, our Company shall give priority to China Communications in terms of service opportunities and
cooperation opportunities. China Communications pledges its support to the strategic transformation of our Company from a traditional basic telecommunication operator to a comprehensive information service provider, to the development of strategic
transformation services of our Company, and to the market development of both parties, including but not limited to (a) if our Company has new operation outsourcing demands and service amount increases due to our operational needs, China
Communications shall make every endeavor to give priority to the demands of our Company and provide our Company with quality services; (b) for other new businesses and services modes of our Company, China Communications shall, in view of the
business development of our Company, make full use of its strength in IT such as system integration and software development, and in sales outlets and maintenance to actively support the business development of our Company. 

 China Communications pledges to actively facilitate the business development of our Company with all its might. Its
specific measures are as follows: (a) China Communications pledges to support actively the implementation of the sales and planning for marketing outlets layout of our Company and to play the role of exploring and extending the channel network
of our Company. As the sales and marketing agent for our Company, China Communications also pledges to give priority to the recommendation of the products and services of our Company to its clients when the terms of the agent contracts by other
operators are almost the same. It also pledges to give adequate training to its employees so that they can familiarize themselves with the various products and services of our Company and to provide the clients with satisfactory services;
(b) China Communications pledges that when it carries out ICT businesses independently (e.g. China Communications provides independently system integration services and software development services for VIP clients or SMEs), it shall always
employ the voice and data products and services provided by our Company unless the clients have designated otherwise; (c) China Communications pledges to employ the voice and data products and services of our Company when it has demands for
voice and data products and services.

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