en.Wedoany.com Reported - On May 17, China Telecom officially launched a series of trial commercial Token plans, offering three tiers of Token Plans for two customer groups—developers, small and micro enterprises, as well as individuals and families—along with two optional services: a broadband upload speed boost package and a security protection package. On the same day, China Telecom also announced the Tianyi Token Coin and Token Rights Program to its Token ecosystem partners, establishing a unified measurement framework to build a cross-terminal, cross-application Token circulation system. This is the first Token plan system among the three major operators to be implemented on a trial commercial basis nationwide.
For individual and family customers, China Telecom has introduced three Token Plan tiers: Light Enjoyment, Premium Enjoyment, and Exclusive Enjoyment, with monthly fees of 9.9 yuan, 29.9 yuan, and 49.9 yuan respectively, corresponding to monthly Token quotas of 10 million, 40 million, and 80 million. All three tiers can be purchased repeatedly. Among the optional services, increasing the home broadband upload speed by 50Mbps costs 100 yuan/month; the 5G-A Premium package includes 10GBps of data with upload speeds boosted up to 300Mbps for 20 yuan/month; and the AI Agent Security Steward provides security checks and protection audits for agents like TeleClaw and OpenClaw, priced at 5 yuan/month. This series of plans integrates China Telecom's Xingchen Large Model and ecosystem models like DeepSeek V3.2, suitable for application scenarios such as daily office assistance, learning and creation, and copywriting. China Telecom also plans to subsequently launch an AI application package plan with the "Xing Xiaochen" agent as the entry point, covering functions like AI calling, writing, image and video generation, recording, and AI travel.
Three tiers of Token Plans are available for developers and small and micro enterprise customers: Basic, Professional, and Flagship editions, with monthly fees of 39.9 yuan, 159.9 yuan, and 299.9 yuan respectively, corresponding to Token quotas of 15 million, 70 million, and 150 million. The Basic edition covers lightweight development tasks, the Professional edition handles complex project development, and the Flagship edition is designed for massive workload development tasks; all three tiers can also be purchased repeatedly. For optional services, broadband upload speed increases of 50Mbps for small and micro enterprise customers cost 100 yuan/month; the AI Agent Security Steward, providing security checks and protection audits for agents like TeleClaw and OpenClaw, costs 5 yuan/month; and the AI Agent Guardrail, which provides AI asset identification and discovery, agent interaction control, and threat handling for terminals with agents installed within enterprises, costs 30 yuan/month. These services integrate China Telecom's Xingchen Large Model and mainstream domestic models like GLM5, consolidating proprietary and third-party computing resources, and are suitable for application scenarios such as AI programming and creation, code development and debugging, agent setup and maintenance, and high-computing task operations, providing low-latency Token services.
The Tianyi Token Coin is positioned as the unified measurement unit for China Telecom's Token operation and circulation, provided to Token ecosystem partners for customer point redemption of Token packages and AI applications; the Token Rights Program will introduce more AI ecosystem application partners for joint operations. In terms of ordering channels, users can subscribe on demand through channels such as the Tianyi Cloud official website and the China Telecom APP. Customers with existing local hardware terminals can use them for their own applications, development tools, and third-party agents by setting up an API key; customers without local hardware terminals can directly purchase Tianyi AI Cloud Computers with built-in agents like TeleClaw, OpenClaw, and Hermes, achieving convenient delivery of "cloud-intelligence integration."
The release of this nationwide Token plan comes just two days after Shanghai Telecom took the lead in trialing it at the regional level. On May 15, Shanghai Telecom launched its Token plan system at the Shanghai stop of the 2026 China Telecom 6th Science and Technology Festival, becoming the first operator in Shanghai to release a Token pricing plan. This plan is purchased by volume, with 1 yuan corresponding to 250,000 quota points (using the KiMi-K2.5 model as an example, supporting approximately 250,000 input Token calls), supports payment via phone bills, and allows users to call over 30 mainstream large models through standard API interfaces. Starting the same day, Shanghai Telecom mobile phone users could claim 25 million quota points for free; from June, "Better Home" plan users will have Token membership benefits activated, achieving an all-in-one price for converged plans. During the same period, Jiangsu Telecom released its Smart Cloud Renewal and Upgrade achievements on the May 17 World Telecommunication Day, launching three tiers of Token volume plans for developers and small and micro enterprise customers—3 million, 15 million, and 40 million—covering various scenarios such as lightweight experience, moderate creation, and high-frequency office work.
From a strategic perspective, this trial commercial Token plan is a key step in China Telecom's comprehensive shift from traditional "data traffic operations" to "Token operations." In his address for the May 17 World Telecommunication Day, China Telecom Chairman Ke Ruiwen stated that Tokens, as the fundamental information units of the intelligent era, are providing core momentum for the digital lifeline, and that China Telecom is using Token operations as the main line to drive the value leap from data to intelligence. Previously, at the 2025 annual results conference, China Telecom's management had clearly declared that Token services would be established as the main operational focus for the future. Data from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology shows that mobile internet access traffic grew by 17.3% year-on-year in 2025, but mobile data traffic business revenue fell by 3.1% year-on-year. The divergence between traffic growth and revenue contribution is forcing operators to seek new growth poles. Against this backdrop, China Telecom's 2026 capital expenditure plan shows total investment decreasing by 9.2% year-on-year to 73 billion yuan, but investment in computing infrastructure will increase to 25.5 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 26%, accounting for 35% of total investment.
Infrastructure construction provides the underlying support for Token operations. China Telecom has built multiple 10,000-card intelligent computing clusters in regions such as the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei area, the Yangtze River Delta, and the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, with its total proprietary and accessible intelligent computing scale reaching 91 EFLOPS. Its "Xirang" computing power interconnection and scheduling platform ranks first in China's computing power internet scheduling. On the production side, through integrated "general-intelligent-supercomputing-quantum" computing and AI high-performance cloud networks, China Telecom is building large-scale Token production capabilities with high concurrency and low latency; on the application side, it already serves 37,000 industry customers, having built over 110 industry large models and more than 350 agents. The nationwide trial commercial launch of Token plans is a direct translation of this infrastructure capability to the consumer and developer ends.
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