Shanghai has the slowest Internet speed on the Chinese mainland, according to a recent industry report.
But the network speed on PCs and mobile phones will improve considerably this year, probably by 10 times or more.
In 2010, Shanghai's Internet access speed was 73.9 kilobits per second on average, ranking slowest nationwide, according to the China Internet Network Information Center report released last week.
China Telecom's Shanghai branch, which has more than 3 million local household users, announced it will upgrade its broadband bandwidth for homes fourfold to 8 megabits per second from January. By the end of 2012, Shanghai will have the fastest broadband connections nationwide, it said.
From this month, many local people have found their networks upgraded with speeds of more than 1 megabits per second, 10-fold faster than previously.
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