China Telecom Denies Hijack of Web Traffic After U.S. Report

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China Telecom Corp., the nation’s biggest fixed-line phone carrier, denied it hijacked Internet traffic, after a U.S. government report said the company wrongly diverted international Web data.

“The spokesman of China Telecom Corporation Ltd. denied any hijack of Internet traffic,” the state-owned company said in an e-mailed statement today. The Beijing-based carrier didn’t elaborate.