Buy tokens directly with phone credit, and telecom operators are entering the AI computing power game—this approach is quite bold.

Shanghai Telecom announced the launch of Token computing power services for Shanghai users, becoming the first operator in Shanghai to release Token computing power rate plans. The service offers two billing methods: pay-as-you-go and on-demand discounts; 1 yuan corresponds to a quota of 250,000 points, and supports payment via mobile phone bills. After purchase, users can call more than 30 mainstream large models through standard APIs, covering both text and multimodal capabilities. For example, using 10 yuan to buy a quota of 2,500,000 points can support the automatic summarization of approximately 100 e-books, each with 100,000 words.