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Cell Phone, help!
May 11, 2009 20:31
guest54237 Hi, One of my teacher asks us to write some suggestions to foreigners about how to use cell phone in China. But i do not know clearly what kind of problem will foreigners meet when using cell phone in China. So can any one help to give your own prolems met in China when using cell phone? Thanks in advance!
May 12, 2009 02:06
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  • DAVEC
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I can use my phone easily, if I keep my UK sim card it just costs a fortune. So I take it out and buy Chinese sim card, much cheaper and no problems. Even when I buy extra credit and have to phone to activate it there is an English language option.
May 12, 2009 02:28
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GUEST54237 Is your cell phone brought in China? Do you need to activate when your make international calls? How about the fees?
May 13, 2009 03:51
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  • GAFFER
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Many UK phones are "locked" to a particular UK network when purchesed. This means that no other SIM card willl work in them. However, they can be unlocked at many phone shops for small fee. Then for local Chinese calls a Chinese Pay as You Go SIM card can be purchsed. For international calls it is cheaper to buy an International phone card. An access number is then dialed before the international number. Most European phones will work in China but probably not US phones which work on a different phone system.
May 13, 2009 17:56
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  • DAVEC
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All my phones are unlocked as I have monthly contract. UK phones on pay as you go are usually locked to a network but as Gaffer says they can be 'unlocked' easily and cheaply.
May 18, 2009 11:00
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Using cellphone either in China or elsewhere, is always the same, its basic usage is simply to talk or sending messages. Using international roaming in China can be quite expensive especially when calling from China. If the sim card is from Malaysia, means calling from China the user has pay Malaysia-China-Malaysia calls. The best way is to use local China sim card to call overseas because the user needs to pay one way, say China-Malaysia. Some service providers in China do not allow sending messages to overseas but can receive. Last December I lost a mobile phone with my China Mobile sim card, and a friend helped to purchase a China sim card (but not China Mobile) and all my messages to Malaysia were bounced (can only send messages within China). Surprisingly, while China Mobile can be used in Macau not Hong Kong but this sim card can be used both in Macau and Hong Kong, and can send messages too.
Wan
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