Shanghai’s 1GB speed

Source: Xinhua | 2017-05-26

SHANGHAI will become the first city in the world with full coverage of 1-gigabyte broadband bandwidth next year, China Telecom said yesterday. 

The country’s biggest fixed-line service provider plans to spend 3 billion yuan (US$437 million) building the upgraded network in 2017, which will cover 60 percent of the city by the year end. The network is expected to cover the whole city in 2018, with more than 1 million family users. The local average broadband bandwidth is about 71.7 megabytes per second — the fastest in China.