en.Wedoany.com Reported - On May 15, Shanghai Telecom officially launched its Token computing power service at the 2026 China Telecom Sixth Science and Technology Festival Shanghai Station, becoming the first operator in Shanghai to release a Token pricing plan. The plan is priced at 1 yuan for 250,000 quota points. Taking the KiMi-K2.5 model as an example, this can support approximately 250,000 input Tokens. The purchase method is on-demand, where you buy as much as you use, with discounts available for bulk purchases, and the cost is directly charged to the mobile phone bill. At the launch event, Shao Yantao, Deputy General Manager of Shanghai Telecom, also announced that starting immediately, Shanghai Telecom mobile number users can receive 25 million quota points for free, valid for one month; starting in June, Token membership benefits will be launched in the family digital space for "Beautiful Home" plan users, achieving an all-in-one price for the converged plan.
After purchasing quota points, users can call over 30 mainstream large models through standard API interfaces, covering text and multimodal types, integrating AI capabilities into their own software, scripts, or automated processes. Taking the purchase of 2.5 million quota points for 10 yuan as an example, it can allow a program to automatically summarize 100 e-books of 100,000 words each.
The launch of the Token plan carries China Telecom's strategic intent to make Token services its main business line. On March 24 this year, Liu Guiqing, President and Chief Operating Officer of China Telecom, clearly stated at the 2025 performance briefing that Token services are the main business line for China Telecom going forward. China Telecom will strengthen its own Tokens, expand its ecosystem Tokens, and actively explore international Token operations. This initial implementation of the Token pricing plan by Shanghai Telecom marks a substantial step for the operator from communication services towards Token operations.
Shanghai Telecom simultaneously released the Smart Cloud Shanghai AI STORE, a one-stop AI service portal. This platform brings together a computing power supermarket, a model supermarket, and an application supermarket, providing a unified entry point, unified calling, unified billing, and a unified bill. Enterprises and individuals can call various model capabilities on demand without needing to build complex technology stacks themselves. The platform utilizes core capabilities such as a computing network scheduling engine, a multi-model routing middle platform, and full-link Token optimization to achieve the integration of computing, storage, networking, and intelligence, along with unified Token management, with carrier-grade data security ensuring full-process encryption.
The deployment of AI capabilities in home scenarios is advancing simultaneously with the Token plan. Shanghai Telecom released the "AI Family Assistant," loaded onto Tianyi Smart Screens, covering ten scenarios across four major sectors: telecom services, convenient living, education and entertainment, and health guardianship. Users can complete operations such as appointment registration, food delivery ordering, and network optimization through voice commands. The AI Family Assistant is deeply integrated with Taobao Flash Purchase and connected to Alipay's password-free payment; when the system identifies high-bandwidth demands such as gaming, online classes, or video conferencing, it can optimize network channels in real-time, reducing latency by over 30%.
On the same day Shanghai Telecom released its Token plan system, it also initiated the joint construction of smart city services and AI ecosystem cooperation with dozens of partners, including Huawei, Alibaba Cloud, ByteDance, and the Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. It is expected that by the end of the year, the Smart Cloud Shanghai AI STORE will have over 10,000 registered users, daily Token calls will reach the hundreds of billions, and the number of enterprises served will reach 2,000. Shanghai Telecom is using Token operations as a new engine to complete its strategic transformation from a connectivity provider to an urban AI infrastructure service provider.
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