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China’s major telecommunications companies are moving beyond traditional cellular data plans to offer AI token packages to consumers and businesses. This strategic shift aims to monetize the growing artificial intelligence boom by providing units of computational processing for large language models (LLMs). China Telecom, China Mobile, and China Unicom have all unveiled token-based service plans and ecosystem partnerships, signaling their entry into the “token economy.” These plans function like prepaid data packages, but instead of internet traffic, they meter AI computation.
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May 21, 2026