PCCW-HKT Telephone Limited (Traditional Chinese: 香港電話有限公司), formerly Hong Kong Telephone Company Limited and Cable & Wireless HKT Telephone Limited, is a leading fixed-line telecommunication provider in Hong Kong to provide fixed-line telephone, telephone booth, broadband services. It is a subsidiary of PCCW.
According to the leaked document, undersea cabling company Reach – a joint venture of Telstra (then 50.1 percent-owned by the Australian Government) and PCCW, a Hong Kong corporation – had to send all communications to or from US to a storage facility “physically located in the United States, from which Electronic Surveillance can be conducted pursuant to Lawful US Process.” The document also specifies the facility should be run exclusively by US FBI staff.