Shanghai Telecom builds high-quality and beautiful digital new life, promotes gigabit speed on a large scale, benefits 3 million families, and promotes 2000M home broadband first.
On November 19th, China Telecom Shanghai Company (hereinafter referred to as Shanghai Telecom) held the 2021 Digital Life Festival conference, launched the 11th round of broadband speed-up action, implemented "Gigabit speed-up in the whole city, all-round speed-up, family sharing", promoted gigabit speed-up on a large scale and increased the scale of Gigabit users, provided high-quality networking services to meet the different needs of different users, and launched a 2000M home broadband package. At the same time, Shanghai Telecom has created a variety of digital portals, provided leading digital applications in the innovation industry, and promoted the arrival of a new era of digital life for all.
Ruan Li, Deputy Director of Shanghai Economic and Information Technology Commission, Zhao Dandan, Deputy Director of Shanghai Health and Wellness Commission, Wang Tianguang, Deputy Director of Shanghai Communications Administration, Zhao Hongwei, Vice Chairman of Science and Technology Committee of Shanghai Songjiang District CPPCC, Gong Bo, General Manager of China Telecom Shanghai Company, and Bian Yanfeng, General Manager of Tianyi Digital Life Technology Co., Ltd. attended the ceremony, and guests from relevant municipal and district government departments, representatives of cooperative enterprises and industrial chain partners attended the conference.
Shanghai Telecom’s move is following many leading moves, such as building the first broadband city in China in 2005, the first broadband city in 2011, the first gigabit city in the world in 2018, and taking the lead in launching the "3 Gigabit" upgrade in 2020. Shanghai Telecom once again leads the trend. Moreover, this time it is not just a "hardware upgrade" of information infrastructure. At the same time, Shanghai Telecom pays attention to deepening customer needs and application scenarios, building an integrated digital life product and service system, and truly realizing the digital transformation of life.
"Shanghai Telecom hopes to work together with its partners to make Shanghai a gigabit leading city and provide better products and services for the general public, and jointly enter a new era of digital life of’ the digital life of gigabit telecommunications in the whole city’." Gong Bo, general manager of Shanghai Telecom, said at the press conference.
At the press conference, Shanghai Telecom signed the Agreement on Building a Gigabit City with the competent commissions in Changning District, Songjiang District, Jing ‘an District, Baoshan District, Hongkou District and Pudong New Area, so as to light up the "Gigabit Broadband Community" in the whole city, carry out broadband upgrade to Gigabit, build a digital home, and release new digital application scenarios, so that the general public can truly enjoy the convenience and benefits brought by "Gigabit in the whole city".
The city is gigabit, so that more users can use and make good use of Gigabit broadband.
Whether it is digital industry or intelligent life, it is inseparable from a solid base, which is Gigabit network. Gigabit network is like a "blood vessel", which connects thousands of households and industries at high speed and safely, realizes the integration and sharing of the physical world and the digital world, and promotes the improvement of digitalization level.
As the vanguard and main force of Shanghai’s urban informatization construction, Shanghai Telecom has been actively promoting the upgrading of urban informatization level and promoting Shanghai’s comprehensive digital transformation and upgrading.
In 2016, Shanghai Telecom took the lead in launching gigabit broadband construction and scale promotion plan in China, and officially promoted gigabit broadband access services throughout the city. In 2018, Shanghai Telecom successfully upgraded FTTH (fiber-to-the-home) network in the whole city on the basis of completing the super project of the cooperative construction of ultra-large-scale access network and metropolitan area network, realizing the city-wide coverage of gigabit optical fiber network, thus building the world’s first gigabit city. Since then, Shanghai Telecom has fully launched the construction of "5G+ Optical Network Double Gigabit Demonstration City" in 2019, and in 2020, it took the lead in promoting the "Three Gigabit Upgrade" of Gigabit 5G, Gigabit Broadband and Gigabit WiFi.
The "small goal" of the city’s gigabit coverage, Shanghai Telecom has been completed in 2018, and has now covered 10 million home users in the city. However, for Shanghai Telecom, building a gigabit optical network is not the ultimate goal. The key is to make users widely use it and make good use of gigabit broadband.
Promoting gigabit speed-up on a large scale and increasing the scale of gigabit users is the core content of Shanghai Telecom’s "Digital New Life of Gigabit Home Telecom in the City".
To this end, Shanghai Telecom has launched the activity of "Using Telecom 5G, Increasing the Age of Broadband Network by Gigabit". For telecom 5G home users, and the broadband network age is 10 years or more, the home broadband is directly accelerated to 1000 m; The network age is 5 to 10 years (excluding 10 years), and the home broadband speed is directly increased to 500 m; If the net age is less than 5 years (excluding 5 years), the speed can be increased to 1000M at a preferential rate. This broadband network age acceleration activity for 5G users in telecom households is expected to benefit 3 million broadband users in Shanghai Telecom. For non-5G home users, after upgrading to 5G package, they can also participate in broadband network age acceleration activities.
At the same time, users can also participate in the perfect 5G convergence package, which can not only use the communication service with the highest broadband rate of 1000M, the highest traffic rate of 300G/ month and the highest voice rate of 3000 minutes/month, but also share the package content with up to ten mobile number cards, which is more cost-effective for the whole family. They can also participate in popular activities such as the direct drop of 5G mobile phones, the doubling of package traffic, and the rights lottery.
Through this action, it is estimated that by the end of 2021, broadband users of 500M and above will account for at least 25% of Shanghai Telecom’s broadband users, and by the end of 2022, 1,000 m users will account for 40%.
2000M broadband is launched, and high-quality networking services are upgraded.
Shanghai Telecom is a leading broadband operator in Shanghai, occupying a dominant position in the market. At present, there are 4.5 million home broadband users in Shanghai Telecom, and the average bandwidth of users exceeds 300M m..
Driven by Shanghai Telecom, Shanghai’s network speed continues to lead in China. According to the data of Broadband Development Alliance, in the second quarter of 2021, the average available download rate of fixed broadband in China reached 56.7Mbit/s, while the average available download rate of fixed broadband in Shanghai reached 60.06Mbit/s, ranking first among all provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) in China. In terms of gigabit broadband development, by the end of September this year, broadband users of 1000Mbps and above in Shanghai accounted for 6.2% of the total users, significantly ahead of the national average of 4.05%.
Although the network speed level is in the lead in China, Shanghai Telecom has not stopped. At the press conference, Shanghai Telecom launched a heavy measure and released a 2000M home broadband package, which brought users a high-quality experience of millisecond network delay, super gigabit high bandwidth and over 256 smart device connections.
During World Telecommunication Day 517 this year, Shanghai Telecom officially launched the whole-house Gigabit service based on FTTR (Fiber to Room), which extended the optical fiber from the home information box to every room in the home. Up to now, nearly 20,000 users have used the FTTR-based whole-house Gigabit service of Shanghai Telecom. At the press conference, Shanghai Telecom announced that broadband can be accelerated to 2000 m free of charge for users of existing whole-house Gigabit gift packages (monthly rental version); From now on, users of 199 and above perfect integration package will apply for the whole house gigabit package (monthly rental version), and broadband can enjoy 2000M directly.
On the basis of 2000M home broadband, Shanghai Telecom has formed a more complete product system, which can meet the needs of different users and provide high-quality networking services, including: whole-house WiFi service consisting of "Broadband+WiFi6", whole-house WiFi exclusive service consisting of "Gigabit Broadband+WiFi6+", whole-house Gigabit service consisting of "Ultra Gigabit Broadband+FTTR" and "Ultra Gigabit Broadband+FTTR+"
Create full-scene applications and share a new era of digital life.
Shanghai Telecom has continuously consolidated the development base of digital economy, built an integrated digital life product and service system, and provided all-round digital life services for urban and rural residents.
Shanghai Telecom said that on the basis of "5G+ Broadband +WiFi" 3 Gigabit, it will gather a wealth of pan-intelligent terminal categories, and provide personalized design, own combination and professional delivery of intelligent customized solutions for the whole house. Based on a variety of explosive terminals, it will focus on creating a series of scene applications such as smart homes and digital homes, giving users diverse choices.
Relying on "Gigabit Broadband+Whole House Gigabit +5 Smart Home Scenes", Shanghai Telecom has built a smart model room for home users. Gigabit access coverage in the whole house eliminates the dead angle of signal in the home. Winglet Manager APP can control multi-brand terminals to realize scene linkage and interactive experience. On this basis, Shanghai Telecom provides users with five intelligent scenes of the whole house, such as intelligent life, intelligent balcony, intelligent bedroom, intelligent access control and intelligent lighting, which gives them a sense of security, makes the whole house appliances smart every second, and makes the whole house lighting be controlled at will, and bid farewell to manually opening and closing curtains.
It is difficult to do things at home, send and receive express delivery, and charge cars … People have been troubled by these troubles for a long time. The digital home resource aggregation service platform created by Shanghai Telecom provides digital applications such as open government affairs, smart party building, healthy old-age care, smart travel, family entertainment, surrounding business districts, and one network office to help people have a happy and warm home and eliminate these troubles.
Information technologies such as 5G, artificial intelligence, big data and Internet of Things have profoundly changed the health service and management mode. Based on its powerful cloud network resources and computing power resources, Shanghai Telecom has joined hands with industrial chain partners such as Shangtang Technology to enable "5G+AI" to empower more hospitals, promote the establishment of a fast and accurate intelligent medical system, and help solve major livelihood issues such as people’s difficulty in seeing a doctor.
There is also cloud broadband, which provides users with high-quality services of cloud network integration. Cloud broadband is to build a cloud-edge collaborative broadband system based on edge cloud. Personalized management and control are realized through a software-based virtualized cloud gateway, and broadband access is cloud-based, providing users with unique cloud network integration quality services.
The professional service team led by the national model workers is a powerful guarantee for Shanghai Telecom to provide users with quality digital life. At present, Shanghai Telecom has more than 5,000 gold medal engineers to provide users with digital life services.
The whole city lights up the "Gigabit Broadband Community" and accelerates the landing of the scene system.
At the launch conference of Digital Life Festival that day, Shanghai Telecom signed contracts with the competent commissions in Changning District, Songjiang District, Jing ‘an District, Baoshan District, Hongkou District and Pudong New Area. The two sides jointly focused on key areas and industries, focusing on information infrastructure, smart community governance, digital home and other aspects, and accelerated the implementation of the digital life application scenario system as soon as possible.
First of all, through the activity of speeding up the age of home broadband network, the "Gigabit Broadband Community" will be lit up one by one, so as to further increase the broadband rate and ensure that the proportion of users 500M and above in the region will reach 25% of all fixed broadband users before the end of the year. Secondly, we should make concerted efforts to refine the scene requirements on the basis of the life cycle management of community data, build benchmark cases, and build a "digital home" governance service system with more in-depth one network management, one network management and more perceptive people’s livelihood services, so as to jointly promote digital beautiful homeland and build a smart community. Furthermore, build a digital home, actively carry out smart home business, provide FTTR (light to room) /FTTD (light to desktop) access for residents, promote the popularization of home networking, build a home network environment with high bandwidth, wide coverage, low power consumption, strong security and easy management, and provide more rich smart home products and applications.
Looking forward to the future, Shanghai Telecom will continue to join hands with industrial partners for mutual benefit and win-win with the development concept of openness and integration, and strive to build an innovative ecology of digital life to better meet the people’s growing needs for a better digital life.