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Mobile phone SIM card - Prepaid
Nov 30, 2007 04:45
guest52881 I will be in Beijing/Shanghai/Hangzhou soon. I would need to buy a prepaid SIM card to make local calls and to call back to my home country, Malaysia, ever now and then.

Any idea how to go about it and which operating phone carrier SIM should I go for?

Thanks in advance.

Dec 1, 2007 00:58
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  • DESTRUCKDOZ
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Hey whats up,

I hear China Mobile is the largest carrier there. Your going to need a unlocked Tri-band or Quad-band GSM phone. You can purchase one here: http://cgi.ebay.com/China-Mobile-
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Dec 2, 2007 05:33
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You do NOT want to be able to make international calls directly with your Chinese SIM card, it would be prohibitively expensive. Before you know it all the credit on the SIM card would be gone. Buy an IP card (I personally use 17908) and use that as a calling card from your SIM card or a landline to call overseas. Alternatively, just get whoever you want to contact to call you instead.
If you'll be travelling all over China, get a Shen Zhou Xing SIM card as it would work nationwide. A SIM card would cost about 80-100 RMB and might have 50 RMB of pre-charged credit. You should be able to receive local and international calls and SMS, and also able to SMS locally and internationally, and also make local calls. You just can't call internationally directly, which isn't a bad thing anyway considering what I've already explained at the start of my post.
Get China Mobile's Shen Zhou Xing SIM card, that would be sufficient for your purposes. SIM card would cost about 60-100 RMB regardless of the amount of credit in the card -- it might be 0 or 50 RMB.
Look around for small roadside shops selling telephone cards in order to buy the SIM card and IP cards. IP 17908 with 100 RMB face value would cost about 30-60 RMB depending on where you buy it and your bargaining skills.
Dec 30, 2007 01:21
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GUESTKHALIL ... Iam planing to visit beijing & shandong which sim is suitable to contact in karachi pakistan
Dec 30, 2007 01:28
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GUESTKHALIL Iam visiting beijing , to contact in pakistan which sim is suitable
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