Shanghai Telecom launches Internet cafe chain
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2003-10-24 16:01

Shanghai Thursday unveiled 30 newly-built chain Internet cafes run by Shanghai Telecom, the first time that the telecom trade extended their business to this field.

Uniform management policies will be applied to the Internet cafes, according to an official from Shanghai Telecom. All the cafes will provide uniformly high quality services, use uniform logos and have a uniform style of environment.

The official said that the chain cafes are expected to help Shanghai Telecom extend their broadband services and serve as bases where new sorts of Internet services such as e-commerce and online games are tested.

The building of the 30 new Internet cafes was part of the " green power" project, and 100 cafes were planned by the end of this year, said the official.

He said the "green power" project was initiated by China Telecom, parent company of Shanghai Telecom, with the aim of bringing Chinese Internet cafes a standardized management and a healthy development mode.

Thanks to the boom of Internet cafes, more people are able to have access to the Internet, which has boosted the development of Chinese Internet economy and culture. However, unsatisfactory management at some cafes has brought certain negative influences.

The new operation mode of Internet cafes would play a positive role in standardizing Internet cafe business and would be very promising, according to insiders.

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