The Board announced that on 19 June 2024, CITIC Telecom International Holdings Limited entered into the Framework Agreement with CITIC Group Corporation, pursuant to which the Group shall provide the following six categories of services to the CITIC Group for a term of three years from 1 June 2024 to 31 May 2027 (both dates inclusive): the Internet Data Centre Services (i.e. the Internet Data Centre Transactions), the Virtual Private Network Services (i.e. the Virtual Private Network Transactions), the Internet Access Services (i.e. the Internet Access Transactions), the Information Security Management Services (i.e. the Information Security Management Transactions), the Cloud Computing Solutions Services (i.e. the Cloud Computing Solutions Transactions), and the Messaging Services (i.e. the Messaging Transactions). Separate service order forms in respect of the Transactions will be entered into between the Group and the CITIC Group. Such service order forms will follow the guidelines and terms and conditions set out in the Framework Agreement in all material aspects.

Internet Data Centre Services: The Group operates carrier-class internet data centres and provides the equipment and facilities leasing services in Hong Kong, Macau, the Chinese mainland and overseas. The internet data centres are specifically designed buildings with installation of equipment and facilities such as generators, chillers, cooling towers, transformers and other power equipment up to the required loading requirements and standards. The Group provides the leasing of equipment and facilities services in relation to internet data centres to the CITIC Group to fulfil its data centre business needs in Hong Kong, Macau, the Chinese mainland and overseas.

Virtual Private Network Services The Group has established numerous Point(s)-of-Presence around the world to provide data and telecommunications services including virtual private network and value- added services to multinational corporations. The Group provides the Virtual Private Network Services by applying the multi- protocol label switching (MPLS) network. The virtual private network is a private network to connect geographically separated offices of an organisation with different classes-of-service, creating one cohesive network.

Individual users can enjoy remote office and get secure access to send and receive data within their organisation's virtual private network across a public telecommunications infrastructure. The virtual private network services provide a highly secure and efficient network for transmission of video and data applications with guaranteed quality-of service. Internet Access Services: The Group provides enterprises and corporations with high-availability, high-speed Metro Ethernet/broadband local loop circuits, and related network services, which enable access to the internet among customers' designated locations, servers in the data centres, and cloud computing platforms. Information Security Management Services: The Group provides enterprises and corporations with managed information security solutions.

The Group's innovative cybersecurity framework delivers holistic enterprise protection that enables organizations to perform comprehensive assessment and identification of threats, covering services such as code review, vulnerability assessment, penetration testing, and security threat identification, to effectively detect anomalous network behaviours. The regional security operations centres of the Group leverages its advanced dual-core security information and its security information and event management (SIEM) platform, which rapidly detects and responds to emerging threats through large-scale intelligent data analysis. Cloud Computing Solutions Services: The Group offers comprehensive cloud computing solutions that are flexible and customisable to its customers' needs, including Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), versatile managed cloud backup and disaster recovery solutions, cloud connect, multi-cloud management and other services to support enterprises to deploy their cloud services flexibly and rapidly in different business scenarios.

Messaging Services: The Group is one of the largest international telecommunications service hubs in the Asia Pacific region, providing a wide range of messaging services such as Person-to- Person (P2P) SMS, Application-to-Person (A2P) SMS, Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS), Rich Media Messaging (RMS), Over-The-Top (OTT) messaging, voice passwords and other services to both carrier and enterprise customers, and is committed to improving the efficiency of information communication among all sectors of the community with world-class quality services.