On October 11 Hu Lian Xing Kong, an affiliate of China Telecom made a joint announcement with Intel that the two will cooperate on developing a broadband value-added service based channel and user resource areas to provide further integrated services to their clients.

The two will jointly launch a one-stop solution, providing clients with Hu Lian Xing Kong's broadband value-added service and free content service cards, and Pentium 4 processors and other Intel PC products.