China's telecom giants are racing to turn artificial intelligence into the country's next mass-market utility by selling tokens, the tiny units of computing consumption that power AI models, in a sign that the country's operators are trying to transform themselves from bandwidth providers into AI service brokers.

Chinese telecom operators are packaging artificial intelligence usage into subscription plans, turning "tokens" — the basic unit consumed by large AI models — into the industry's…

China Telecom has launched nationwide trial commercial Token subscription plans, marking an accelerated shift by telecom operators from selling data