The city’s IPTV operator BesTV will cooperate with Shanghai Telecom to launch a sales promotion until June 30 targeting the city with unlimited-time 2M or 1M ADSL services. During the period, the company will exempt eligible users from paying the RMB310 installation fee and two years’ IPTV service fee if they can spend more than eight days a month browsing IPTV. The parties say that they will charge 2M ADSL users RMB22 per month and 1M ADSL user RMB27 per month if they fail to spend eight days using IPTV. The charge for those ADSL users in the suburbs of the city is even higher: RMB27 per month for 2M users and RMB32 per month for 1M users.

Yang Bingfeng, team leader of Shanghai Telecom’s IPTV Business, said that the sales promotion is mainly organized to attract more IPTV users. Yang said that 80% of Shanghai’s three million ADSL users are eligible for this service and they hope that the total users of IPTV of the city will reach 800,000 by the end of this year.

Currently, there is not a mature business pattern for the promotion of IPTV in China. Some users complain that images in IPTV programs are not so clear.

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Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol and IP address management software tools help streamline and increase the ability and capacity of the core network to dynamically assign IP addresses and convert domain names into IP addresses, thus enabling more efficient use of network resources. Alcatel-Lucent’s VitalQIP could provide IP addresses assignment and management service for applications such as broadband network and IPTV.

As one of China Telecom group’s IPTV demonstration projects, Shanghai Telecom is the first operator using DHCP technology in an IPTV network. Under the terms of the contract, Alcatel Shanghai Bell provides VitalQIP software and related services, which include consulting, implementation, management and maintenance as well as a training program to Shanghai Telecom to help set up the carrier class DHCP platform. At present, a total of 300,000 Shanghai Telecom subscribers could have distributed IP addresses utilizing this platform.

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According to People’s Daily, Shanghai Telecom’s POS service allows users to make inquiries about the bank account balance of their China UnionPay debit cards and supports account transferring among more than 10 banks’ cards. It allows users of China Merchants Bank, Pudong Development Bank, Shenzhen Development Bank, and Ping’an Bank to also repay bank loans.

In addition, with this telephone POS, users can use China UnionPay cards to pay their water, gas, and telephone fees. Shanghai Telecom plans to launch air ticket and hotel reservation services soon.

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