China Mobile Limited is the world's largest mobile network operator by subscribers, serving approximately 1,005 million mobile customers and 110 million gigabit broadband customers across all 31 provinces of mainland China plus Hong Kong, with roaming into more than 200 countries. Listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and the Shanghai Stock Exchange and majority-owned by state-held China Mobile Communications Group, it runs mobile, broadband, cellular IoT, satellite internet, data centre, cloud and AI businesses on annual revenue of about RMB 1,050.2 billion. In the network-API value chain China Mobile sits squarely on the operator side, not the aggregator side. It joined the GSMA Open Gateway initiative in June 2023, sponsors and maintains several CAMARA APIs upstream (Click to Dial, the Model as a Service family, High-throughput Elastic Network, Facial Recognition, and co-sponsors Network Slice Booking), and in October 2024 secured GSMA Open Gateway certification for its Network-as-a-Service platform after its Quality on Demand API passed 63 conformance tests on ZTE NEF/SCEF exposure functions. None of that is callable from the open internet. Its API posture is partner-gated and domestic — the capability platforms at dev.10086.cn, ct.open.10086.cn and api.iot.10086.cn publish real product and interface documentation but issue credentials only to registered mainland enterprise customers under contract, and China Mobile is not a shareholder in Aduna, so it reaches developers through its own Chinese-language capability marketplaces rather than through the global CPaaS or aggregator channel. The one genuinely self-serve surface is OneNET, its IoT PaaS, which publishes open developer documentation and a live token-authenticated device API.
China Mobile publishes 3 APIs on the APIs.io network: Application Development API, Device Management API, and Voice Call Service API. Tagged areas include Telecommunications, China, Mobile Network Operator, Network APIs, and CAMARA.
The China Mobile catalog on APIs.io includes 2 event-driven AsyncAPI specifications.
China Mobile’s developer surface includes developer portal, documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, support, pricing, signup flow, and 27 more developer resources.
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OneNET is China Mobile's IoT PaaS, operated by its CMIOT subsidiary, for device connection, device management, data storage and data visualisation. It is the company's most genu...
The 通信能力开放平台 (Communication Capability Open Platform) is China Mobile's commercial network-capability channel and the surface where its Open Gateway work actually meets buyers. ...
中国移动互联网能力开放平台 at dev.10086.cn is the operator's application-facing capability marketplace, describing itself as offering 移动认证/号码认证 (mobile and number authentication), 大数据服务 (big...
OneNET pushes events to application servers over plain HTTP(S) POST. Two distinct outbound surfaces are documented anonymously: the platform-wide 数据推送 (HTTP data push) service, ...
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name: China Mobile
kind: company
description: China Mobile Limited is the world's largest mobile network operator by subscribers, serving approximately 1,005
million mobile customers and 110 million gigabit broadband customers across all 31 provinces of mainland China plus Hong
Kong, with roaming into more than 200 countries. Listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and the Shanghai Stock Exchange
and majority-owned by state-held China Mobile Communications Group, it runs mobile, broadband, cellular IoT, satellite internet,
data centre, cloud and AI businesses on annual revenue of about RMB 1,050.2 billion. In the network-API value chain China
Mobile sits squarely on the operator side, not the aggregator side. It joined the GSMA Open Gateway initiative in June 2023,
sponsors and maintains several CAMARA APIs upstream (Click to Dial, the Model as a Service family, High-throughput Elastic
Network, Facial Recognition, and co-sponsors Network Slice Booking), and in October 2024 secured GSMA Open Gateway certification
for its Network-as-a-Service platform after its Quality on Demand API passed 63 conformance tests on ZTE NEF/SCEF exposure
functions. None of that is callable from the open internet. Its API posture is partner-gated and domestic — the capability
platforms at dev.10086.cn, ct.open.10086.cn and api.iot.10086.cn publish real product and interface documentation but issue
credentials only to registered mainland enterprise customers under contract, and China Mobile is not a shareholder in Aduna,
so it reaches developers through its own Chinese-language capability marketplaces rather than through the global CPaaS or
aggregator channel. The one genuinely self-serve surface is OneNET, its IoT PaaS, which publishes open developer documentation
and a live token-authenticated device API.
deliveryModel:
model: saas
open_source: false
commercial: true
callable_host: true
label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
confidence: high
source:
- openapi
- pricing
generated: '2026-08-28'
method: derived
accessModel:
pricing: unknown
onboarding: unknown
trial: false
try_now: false
public: false
label: Unknown
confidence: low
source:
- authentication
- security
- sandbox
generated: '2026-09-03'
method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
tags:
- Telecommunications
- China
- Mobile Network Operator
- Network APIs
- CAMARA
- GSMA Open Gateway
- IoT
- 5G
- Broadband
- Quality on Demand
- Number Authentication
- Satellite
created: '2026-07-25'
modified: '2026-07-25'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: china-mobile:onenet-iot-platform
name: OneNET IoT Open Platform API
description: OneNET is China Mobile's IoT PaaS, operated by its CMIOT subsidiary, for device connection, device management,
data storage and data visualisation. It is the company's most genuinely developer-facing surface, with open Chinese-language
documentation covering MQTT and multi-protocol device access, OneNET Studio, edge computing, device management (DMP),
OTA, message queue, SMS, LBS and video capabilities. The legacy REST base URL api.heclouds.com is live and responds with
a JSON token authentication error to unauthenticated calls, confirming a real token-authenticated device API behind the
docs.
humanURL: https://open.iot.10086.cn/doc/
baseURL: https://api.heclouds.com
tags:
- IoT
- Device Management
- MQTT
- Platform-as-a-Service
- China
tags_raw:
- IoT
- Device Management
- MQTT
- PaaS
- China
properties:
- type: Documentation
url: https://open.iot.10086.cn/doc/
- type: APIReference
url: https://open.iot.10086.cn/doc/iot_platform/
- type: Documentation
url: https://open.iot.10086.cn/doc/mqtt
- type: Portal
url: https://open.iot.10086.cn/
- aid: china-mobile:iot-card-capability-platform
name: China Mobile IoT Card Capability Open Platform API
description: The 物联卡能力开放平台 (IoT Card Capability Open Platform) exposes cellular M2M SIM lifecycle and subscriber-information
operations to enterprise IoT customers. Interface documentation is published openly — the confirmed CMIOT_API2003 码号信息查询
(code/number information query) page documents GET/POST https://api.iot.10086.cn/v2/cardinfo, which resolves any one of
ICCID, IMSI or MSISDN into the other two. Authentication is a proprietary signed-request scheme (appid, transid, ebid
and a SHA-256 token derived from appid+password+transid) whose credentials China Mobile issues by email to approved enterprise
IoT-card customers only. No OpenAPI is published.
humanURL: https://api.iot.10086.cn/apiDocuments/cusInfo/codeInfoQuery.html
baseURL: https://api.iot.10086.cn/v2
tags:
- IoT
- M2M
- SIM Management
- Connectivity Management
- China
properties:
- type: Documentation
url: https://api.iot.10086.cn/
- type: APIReference
url: https://api.iot.10086.cn/apiDocuments/cusInfo/codeInfoQuery.html
- aid: china-mobile:communication-capability-platform
name: China Mobile Communication Capability Open Platform
description: The 通信能力开放平台 (Communication Capability Open Platform) is China Mobile's commercial network-capability channel
and the surface where its Open Gateway work actually meets buyers. Its published developer guide lists audio/video products
— 语音通知 (voice notification), 语音验证码 (voice OTP), 点击拨号 (click to dial) and 中间号 (number masking / privacy number) — plus
an intelligent-pipe product, QoS保障 (QoS guarantee). Click to Dial and QoS map directly to the CAMARA Click to Dial and
Quality on Demand APIs that China Mobile sponsors upstream. The guide covers product introduction, quick start, interface
guidance and pricing, but ordering and credentials require enterprise onboarding; no base URL, endpoint reference or machine-readable
definition is published anonymously.
humanURL: https://ct.open.10086.cn/portal/developer/docAndHelp.action
tags:
- Voice
- Click to Dial
- Number Masking
- Quality on Demand
- Network APIs
- China
properties:
- type: Documentation
url: https://ct.open.10086.cn/portal/developer/docAndHelp.action
- type: Portal
url: https://ct.open.10086.cn/portal/index.action
- aid: china-mobile:internet-capability-open-platform
name: China Mobile Internet Capability Open Platform
description: 中国移动互联网能力开放平台 at dev.10086.cn is the operator's application-facing capability marketplace, describing itself
as offering 移动认证/号码认证 (mobile and number authentication), 大数据服务 (big data services), 通信能力 (communication capabilities),
支付能力 (payment/carrier-billing capabilities) and promotion capabilities. In practice it is an enterprise procurement console
rather than a developer portal — its routes are login, ability ordering, application management, billing, invoices and
work orders, and every documentation route resolves to the same single-page shell for anonymous visitors. Its number-authentication
capability is the domestic analogue of CAMARA Number Verification and is delivered through China Mobile's CMPassport unified-authentication
gateway rather than through a CAMARA endpoint.
humanURL: https://dev.10086.cn/
tags:
- Number Authentication
- Identity Verification
- Carrier Billing
- Big Data
- Messaging
- China
properties:
- type: Documentation
url: https://dev.10086.cn/
- type: Portal
url: https://dev.10086.cn/apmc/abilityList
- aid: china-mobile:china-mobile-application-development-api
name: China Mobile Application Development API
description: The Application Development API from China Mobile — 35 operation(s) for application development.
humanURL: https://open.iot.10086.cn/doc/iot_platform/book/api/introduce.html
baseURL: https://openapi.heclouds.com
tags:
- Application Development
properties:
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/china-mobile-application-development-api-openapi.yml
- type: Documentation
url: https://open.iot.10086.cn/doc/iot_platform/book/api/introduce.html
- type: APIReference
url: https://open.iot.10086.cn/doc/iot_platform/book/api/introduce.html
- type: Authentication
url: https://open.iot.10086.cn/doc/iot_platform/book/api/auth.html
- type: ErrorCatalog
url: https://open.iot.10086.cn/doc/iot_platform/book/api/code.html
- type: SDKs
url: https://open.iot.10086.cn/doc/iot_platform/book/api/sdk.html
- type: DataModel
url: data-model/china-mobile-data-model.yml
- type: Documentation
url: https://open.iot.10086.cn/doc/iot_platform/book/vcs/vcs_api/request.html
- type: APIReference
url: https://open.iot.10086.cn/doc/iot_platform/book/vcs/vcs_api/ctd.html
- type: ErrorCatalog
url: https://open.iot.10086.cn/doc/iot_platform/book/vcs/vcs_api/errorcode.html
- type: Webhooks
url: https://open.iot.10086.cn/doc/iot_platform/book/vcs/vcs_api/ctd-status.html
- type: TermsOfService
url: https://open.iot.10086.cn/doc/iot_platform/book/agreement/vcs-service-agreement.html
- aid: china-mobile:china-mobile-device-management-api
name: China Mobile Device Management API
description: The Device Management API from China Mobile — 9 operation(s) for device management.
humanURL: https://open.iot.10086.cn/doc/iot_platform/book/api/introduce.html
baseURL: https://openapi.heclouds.com
tags:
- Device Management
properties:
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/china-mobile-device-management-api-openapi.yml
- type: Documentation
url: https://open.iot.10086.cn/doc/iot_platform/book/api/introduce.html
- type: APIReference
url: https://open.iot.10086.cn/doc/iot_platform/book/api/introduce.html
- type: Authentication
url: https://open.iot.10086.cn/doc/iot_platform/book/api/auth.html
- type: ErrorCatalog
url: https://open.iot.10086.cn/doc/iot_platform/book/api/code.html
- type: SDKs
url: https://open.iot.10086.cn/doc/iot_platform/book/api/sdk.html
- type: DataModel
url: data-model/china-mobile-data-model.yml
- type: Documentation
url: https://open.iot.10086.cn/doc/iot_platform/book/vcs/vcs_api/request.html
- type: APIReference
url: https://open.iot.10086.cn/doc/iot_platform/book/vcs/vcs_api/ctd.html
- type: ErrorCatalog
url: https://open.iot.10086.cn/doc/iot_platform/book/vcs/vcs_api/errorcode.html
- type: Webhooks
url: https://open.iot.10086.cn/doc/iot_platform/book/vcs/vcs_api/ctd-status.html
- type: TermsOfService
url: https://open.iot.10086.cn/doc/iot_platform/book/agreement/vcs-service-agreement.html
- aid: china-mobile:china-mobile-voice-call-service-api
name: China Mobile Voice Call Service API
description: 语音通话 — voice notification and click-to-dial
humanURL: https://open.iot.10086.cn/doc/iot_platform/book/api/introduce.html
baseURL: https://openapi.heclouds.com
tags:
- Voice Call Service
properties:
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/china-mobile-voice-call-service-api-openapi.yml
- type: Documentation
url: https://open.iot.10086.cn/doc/iot_platform/book/api/introduce.html
- type: APIReference
url: https://open.iot.10086.cn/doc/iot_platform/book/api/introduce.html
- type: Authentication
url: https://open.iot.10086.cn/doc/iot_platform/book/api/auth.html
- type: ErrorCatalog
url: https://open.iot.10086.cn/doc/iot_platform/book/api/code.html
- type: SDKs
url: https://open.iot.10086.cn/doc/iot_platform/book/api/sdk.html
- type: DataModel
url: data-model/china-mobile-data-model.yml
- type: Documentation
url: https://open.iot.10086.cn/doc/iot_platform/book/vcs/vcs_api/request.html
- type: APIReference
url: https://open.iot.10086.cn/doc/iot_platform/book/vcs/vcs_api/ctd.html
- type: ErrorCatalog
url: https://open.iot.10086.cn/doc/iot_platform/book/vcs/vcs_api/errorcode.html
- type: Webhooks
url: https://open.iot.10086.cn/doc/iot_platform/book/vcs/vcs_api/ctd-status.html
- type: TermsOfService
url: https://open.iot.10086.cn/doc/iot_platform/book/agreement/vcs-service-agreement.html
common:
- type: Overlay
url: overlays/china-mobile-onenet-studio-overlay.yaml
- type: Overlay
url: overlays/china-mobile-vcs-overlay.yaml
- type: X-MCPServerCandidate
url: mcp/china-mobile-mcp.yml
note: 'Renamed from MCPServer 2026-09-03 (roadmap#247): the manifest self-describes as status: candidate — a tool list derived
from the published API contracts, not an existing server. The scorer already read the manifest and reported mcp_server
correctly; the MCPServer type was crediting the artifact-type surfaces with a server that does not exist.'
- type: Website
url: https://www.chinamobileltd.com/
- type: DeveloperPortal
url: https://open.iot.10086.cn/
- type: Portal
url: https://dev.10086.cn/
- type: Documentation
url: https://open.iot.10086.cn/doc/
- type: APIReference
url: https://open.iot.10086.cn/doc/iot_platform/book/api/introduce.html
- type: GettingStarted
url: https://open.iot.10086.cn/doc/easy-manual
- type: Support
url: https://open.iot.10086.cn/servicesupport/workorder/list
- type: HelpCenter
url: https://open.iot.10086.cn/doc/problem
- type: Pricing
url: https://open.iot.10086.cn/doc/introduce/book/fee.html
- type: SignUp
url: https://open.iot.10086.cn/login
- type: TermsOfService
url: https://open.iot.10086.cn/about/serviceprot/
- type: Console
url: https://open.iot.10086.cn/console
- type: GitHubOrganization
url: https://github.com/cmri
- type: SourceCode
url: https://github.com/cm-heclouds
- type: ChangeLog
url: https://open.iot.10086.cn/doc/iot_platform/book/release/update_log.html
- type: AgenticAccess
url: agentic-access/china-mobile-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
url: security/china-mobile-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
url: authentication/china-mobile-authentication.yml
- type: Packages
url: packages/china-mobile-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
url: packages/china-mobile-packages.yml
- type: Conventions
url: conventions/china-mobile-conventions.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
url: errors/china-mobile-error-codes.yml
- type: Lifecycle
url: lifecycle/china-mobile-lifecycle.yml
- type: ChangeLog
url: changelog/china-mobile-changelog.yml
- type: Conformance
url: conformance/china-mobile-conformance.yml
- type: Sandbox
url: sandbox/china-mobile-sandbox.yml
- type: DataModel
url: data-model/china-mobile-data-model.yml
- type: AsyncAPI
url: asyncapi/china-mobile-onenet-asyncapi.yml
- type: Webhooks
url: asyncapi/china-mobile-onenet-webhooks.yml
- type: AgentSkill
url: skills/_index.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
url: llms/china-mobile-llms.txt
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