In March 2005, SMG was awarded the first IPTV integrated operation license in China by the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television, and was allowed to use "BesTV bestv" as the call sign of IPTV service. SMG has signed IPTV cooperation agreements with China Telecom Group Corporation and New Unicom Group Corporation to jointly develop IPTV services in Shanghai, Zhejiang, Fujian, Heilongjiang, Liaoning, Shaanxi and other provinces and cities. Commercial and technical testing services cover more than 70% of Chinese mainland.
Bestv bestv takes it as its mission to create a "new TV concept" and provides diversified audio-visual services for the audience through brand-new network digital interactive technology. Bestv always adheres to the "user-oriented" principle, encourages all bestv people to forge ahead, innovate, change management and optimize processes with a high sense of media responsibility and rigorous and prudent scientific spirit, and makes IPTV a personalized, fashionable and interactive new media entertainment platform.