China Telecom Shanghai Branch has launched IPTV services since July 2005 and now has gained 1.5 million subscribers. In nearly six years, IPTV services remained steady at 80%, marketing manager of China Telecom Shanghai Branch He Jianming told C114.
IPTV's prosperity and development greatly enhanced the level of local broadband in Shanghai, and form a good situation to enable the city as the height in national information services industry.
With the achievement of IPTV services, Shanghai municipal government recently expressed the next step to further speed up the process of triple play and made the city more and more informationize.