Yunnan Province is a border province in the southwestern China, with the tropic of cancer trespassing the southern part of the province. The province abuts on Guizhou Province and Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in the east, lies adjacent to Sichuan in the north, and touches on Tibet Autonomous Region in the northwest. The province connects Burma in the west, and is adjacent to Vietnam and Laos in the south. The total land area of the province is 394,000 square kilometers. The provincial capital is Kunming.

The telecommunication layout in the province has experienced radical changes from the extremely backward situation through efforts since the founding of the People's Republic and the hard work in particular since the last decade. In July 1996, 7 digit dial automatic telephone system was available to all 17 prefectures in the province and the 800m and 900m mobile phone system enabled users to roam across China.

Futong Group sets up a customer service center in Kunming for the purpose of taking the advantage of the locality to offer quality products and fast services to telecommunication carriers in the Province.province and the country. At present, all 127 counties (cities and regions) are connected with digital telephone exchange system. There are more than 300 programmed telephone exchange offices across its rural areas. The trunk network across the province is 100% digitalized. The telecommunication network has been upgraded step by step from small capacity to large capacity, from analogue to digital, from manual operation to automatic operation. Meanwhile, mobile networks, packet switching networks, digital data networks, the television meeting network have been set up to connect the provincial capital with prefectures and municipalities. The Yunnan Mobile's GSM project has undergone 7 phases of development and has expanded the total exchange capacity to 4.275 million, and mobile cell stations to 2,500. At present Yunnan Mobile boasts over 2.8 million users. Through the huge development of the 7th, 8th, 9th, Five-Year Plans, the province has now advanced telecommunication systems and technologies. The province has taken decisive historical steps toward telecommunication modernization and has scored significant achievements.