# China Mobile

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/china-mobile/  
**Website:** https://www.chinamobileltd.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 6

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.

## Kin Score — 46.0 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-21 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 46.0).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 83.3 |
| Contract Quality | 22.8 |
| Governance | 30.3 |
| Contract Governance | 30.3 |
| Operational Transparency | 26.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 70.8 |
| Commercial Clarity | 34.2 |
| Access Clarity | 34.2 |

Regulatory layer — **Telecommunications**: 55.6 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 41.7 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | documented |
| OpenAPI Examples | verified |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | yes |
| Agent Skills | derived |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## APIs (6)

- **OneNET Studio Application API** — The OneNET Studio application API is the one China Mobile surface with a complete, anonymously readable request-and-response contract. It is an action-dispatched gateway — every...
- **OneNET Voice Call Service (VCS) API** — 语音通话 (Voice Call Service) is China Mobile's publicly documented voice capability on the OneNET gateway, reached at https://openapi.heclouds.com/vcs?action={voiceNotify|dialNotif...
- **OneNET IoT Open Platform API** — 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...
- **China Mobile IoT Card Capability Open Platform API** — 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 i...
- **China Mobile Communication Capability Open Platform** — 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. ...
- **China Mobile Internet Capability Open Platform** — 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...

## MCP servers (1)

- **China Mobile MCP Server**

## Agentic access (1)

- **China Mobile Agentic Access** — 45 operations · 23 acting

## Security (2)

- **China Mobile Authentication** — apiKey · 2 schemes
- **China Mobile Domain Security** — TLSv1.2 · HSTS

## Tags

Telecommunications, China, Mobile Network Operator, Network APIs, CAMARA, GSMA Open Gateway, IoT, 5G, Broadband, Quality on Demand, Number Authentication, Satellite

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/china-mobile/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.