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Hello, I have been given this some thought recently. I would like to keep a permanent phone number for China. I am in China for 30-35 days a year. I would like to keep the same mobile number instead of changing it every time I come to China. I went to this site that ama 537621 had posted in another topic. http://www.86callchi...prs-package.htm I found this info: 5 yuan PlanMonthly fee: 5 yuanFree traffic including: 30 MB (cmwap only)Rate exceed free traffic: 1 yuan/MB (cmwap and cmnet)Roaming charges: 1 yuan/MBTo Active:SMS: send BLGPRS to 10086 (Chinese only)Call: dailing hotline 10086 Not sure if the info above is only for data. Maybe I won't have any calling privilegesI am going to try to call the 10086 number.in the morning and see if I get some more info from them. When I am in China I am a light phone user. I didn't have a unlocked smart phone on this trip but plan to have one on my future trips. I also would like to be able to send some messages to China mobile phones and on occasion some US phones. I am looking not to spend too much money. What do you all think? Thoughts,options and ideas would be appreciated. Thanks. Danb PS. I did search to see if there would be a better place to put this. Didn't find one. Moderators please feel free to place it in a better spot if there is one. -
Hey everybody, I'm going to China in March. I have an LG Spectrum through Verizon. As far as I know, it has the capability to be used outside of the US. Will this apply to China? Will I be able to use my web sevice through my phone while in China? Thanks, Todd
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ID cards needed to buy telephone service This part I do not agree with. Seems like more spam would be created: ""We want to fully implement the real-name system, because it's good for us in marketing terms if we have more information about our customers, like their ages and professions," said Li Yun, an employee at China Telecom's Beijing branch."
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ChunMei's going back to China for a month and a half in May, and wants to have a phone she can use to make local calls while she's there. We're currently under contract with T-Mobile, and when she was last in China she learned that the SIMM card slot T-Mobile uses won't take whatever they use for SIMM card format in China. She want me to buy her an $300 unlocked Blackberry for six weeks of usewhile she's there. Since the cards are incompatable with our current phone carrier she can't use it here when she comes back. I still have a year before our T-Mobile contract expires, so changing US phone carriers isn't an option. Anybody got any advice?
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Do the IPad3's all have CIMS card slots in them or does the Wi-FI version have them. I do not know much about IPads but LiYuan wants me to bring one to her when I travel there in November. I am not sure what if they work from here and if they are really any cheaper here compared to there. Thanks for any advice in advance Paul
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If you google China sim card, many places come up that say you can buy a card from them and still get calls on your local (USA) number. Anyone ever use these? Or what is the best way to have text msging and internet access while in China. Buy a card once we get there or buy one of these? http://www.brightroam.com/China-SIM-Card-P31C0.aspx?source=p&gclid=CIqyxeHe_q8CFSoZQgod60iTUg http://www.holidayphone.com/payg-prepaid-sim-card-china.html?gclid=COqpseve_q8CFXQeQgodt1DlUA http://www.cellularabroad.com/packages-china.html?gclid=CI-Ooffe_q8CFQxshwodM2Flqg I have spoken to Verizon and they said either phone we have (Razor Maxx or the Thunderbolt) would work on Chinese networks.
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Hello, A few years ago in Beijing there were sim cards for sell from vending machines. Well at least I think that is what those vending machines were selling. I am not sure which termnal that I was in and I was just transitioning thru Beijing. Has anyone else seen those machine? Has anyone one ever used those machines. Those machines were not English friendly. I don't recall seeing any of the vendor's booths that use to sell sim cards. I think those vendors use to sell sim cards for 100 RMB. I would like to buy a sim card for my phone. My phone is a smartphone. Does anyone know if I have to buy a special sim card or will they all work? Will I need any special software for my phone? Thank you any info that you can give me. Danb
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My soon to be wife brought her cell phone to the States because she really likes it and wanted to use it here. I have Verizon and wanted to add her to my plan. I wanted to buy her a Verizon SIM card for her phone, but was told that Verizon SIM cards only fit Verizon phones. So, I'm not sure where to go next. She likes her phone and doesn't want a new phone, so I'd like to do everything I can to make hers work in the US. Should I consider jumping to another company that can support her phone with an US SIM card? suggestions?
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We just bought a pair of Nokia E71xs and my wife wants to put QQ on it. Has anybody tried this? thanks
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So, my fiancee is in the U.S. now. She brought her mobile phone from China (which is quad-band GSM). We needed to buy her an American SIM card. I decided since she doesn't yet have a lot of American friends, she probably wouldn't be using it too much. The main use would be to send text messages (sms) to friends back in China. For talking to her family in friends in China, she'll be using Skype (I already pay $10 a month for unlimited). So I decided to go with a prepaid card. Looked like the only options were AT&T and T-Mobile, and T-Mobile was cheaper. So I bought the T-Mobile card ($10) and a $100 prepaid card (which gets you $.10 a minute). Well, guess what. English text messages work perfectly. When she tries to send one or I try to send her a Chinese text message (with Chinese characters), they appear to just evaporate into the aether. Nothing happens, but no error messages or anything bounced back. T-Mobile was pretty useless for help. I have AT&T (through work with an iPhone) and text messages seem to work fine for me in Chinese. She'd send me some and I'd send some back when my fiancee was in China. I tried sending one to myself and it worked. I also tried sending a Chinese character text to my brother with Verizon and there was no luck. Anybody know what's going on? Maybe AT&T supports Chinese characters, but T-Mobile (and probably Verizon) do not. I wish I'd known this, as I possibly just wasted $110 (many signs say no-refunds for pre-paid, but maybe I can convince them or yell enough to get a refund). Seems like they should have told me about this considering they popped the card into a phone with Chinese characters on it and since my fiancee was with me speaking in Chinese. Or maybe there is just a setting I need to change? That's probably wishing too much though. She might just be having to type pinyin, though she doesn't like it. She seems to be one of the few Chinese people who uses one of those other systems for entry (learned it with an old job and claims it is much faster). Thanks.
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If anybody has purchased/rented cell phones or SIM cards for use while vacationing in China - can you please tell me the best and cheapest way to do it? I see they can be rented/purchased on the internet here before you go. And other option is to do this at the airport of entry into China. What is the easiest and/or cheapest way to do this? Thanks, m-coon -
I know this has probably been addressed, but i need a quick assurance. James leaves for china Wednesday and will take his iphone. I've heard horror stories about charges on these once they're used there. He says he's unlocked it and will remove it's Sim card once he leaves chicago and will buy a Sim when he gets to China. My Question is: Am I safe from the thousands of dollars of charges some people have incurred while using an iphone in China? I haven't kept up with Cell phone technology and he assures me it's safe. Anyone try this with an iphone in China? thanks, Hank
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I've read horror stories about data roaming Charges from USC taking their iPhones Aborad. Anyone take their iPhone to china? Timb
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I am here in GUZ, and I need to make 3 calls to the US while I am here in China for the next 5 weeks. How can I use my att phone, or activate international calling so I don't have to pay large fees. I have an unlocked phone with a Chinese sim card, and I have my att phone here also. Can I access Att from here to change my plan, add international calling? Please help. I thought I was prepared, but I forgot about the calls home to US. Thanks, Mike & Yizhen -
Hello all! Since my darling's interview is only a few days away now, I am starting to think of logistics for her arrival and our reunification (forever this time!!!). One of the issues that I have come across I can not seem to get sufficient information about, and I want to pose to everyone the question, so that we can see if an answer can be found. I have looked far and wide for a tri-band cell phone which would be usable both in a plan here in the US for us to have (as a family unit), as well as when we go back to China. I *do* know that if we purchased a SIM chip in china and placed it into the phone, that it would work there, without a problem, and without needing to pay the extremely high prices that the US companies charge to use a cell phone in China. However, there seem to be few tri-band phones in the US, and of the few that I have been able to find, most are "locked", meaning that one can not easily get to the SIM card. And the ones that I have found I can not find any domestic carriers for (they seem to be used mostly in Europe and Asia). Does anyone have any recommendations? Thanks again!!
