As a reaction to the recently rumor that “China Telecom will drop out from Yixin”, relevant people inside China Telecom clearly said that “I have never heard of it, and it is impossible”, “China Telecom will not drop out from Yixin, on the contrary, it will strengthen the support level”.
Yixin is jointly developed by Netease and China Telecom, which is an instant messaging software free of charge, rumor goes that “China Telecom, the major shareholder of Yixin, is fully dropping out from the daily operations of Yixin, the former CEO Zhang Zheng, vice general manager Gao Zhimin (the former principal of ECP) has resigned successively, leaving Netease alone in struggle”.
About this rumor, relevant people inside China Telecom said that “The news reporter totally don’t know the operation mode of Yixin”. As we have learned, in support of “de-telecom”, although China Telecom takes 80% of the share of Yixin, it has always supported the operation of Yixin by the group from Netease, and Netease is a private enterprise, the flow of its principals in Yixin is normal; Gao Zhimin, the former principal of ECP, has seldom participated in Yixin after its foundation.
Actually, China Telecom has always kept a strong support of Yixin, for example, in the recently released 4G packages of China Telecom, in popularizing of Yixin, China Telecom will send 500MB Yixin directional data traffic to 4G subscribers monthly by the end of this year, with free of charge in HD audio chat, HD video chat and international calls.