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[quote=BENCE8810,244442]Hi

Its been a while, and I got further into my investigation, and on top of that, I now have my SIM card, etc.

I found a very nice company, china-mobile-phones and they have the GPRS enabled SIM with top up cards, etc.

http://www.china-mobile-phones.com/China-gprs-enabled-sim-card.html

The person assisting me was Harry, and he was very decent, and replied to all of my funky geeky questions with pretty much all positive answers. The end result was the following:

I paid $135,85USD and I got the following:

GPRS Enabled China Mobile SIM card for $35
6x $16 Top Up card for $96
Shipping to Hungary for $3,85

Shipping took 2 weeks and the Sim card came in a small white envelope with English Instructions. I have those scanned, so I can make it available for anyone. Basically what I paid for is the following:

SIM card with $96USD charged on it already. From this, $60USD is for a 2GB GPRS usage plan, and the rest $36USD is for calls. The GPRS plan is a monthly pre-paid plan, which works until the 30th or 31st of the month you activated it in. In my case, I will enter China on the 30th of September, so if I want to blow 60USD in a matter of 24 hours, I can just activate the plan, but since I don't want to do that, I will only activate it on the 1st of October, so it can last for the 10 days during my journey. I guess from my Ironic sentence you already see that the plan isn't very flexible, and its actually not valid for 30 or 31 days, but till the end of the given month.

Harry was very nice, he gave me his Cell number to which I just need to SMS my request to enable it, and I will be good to go.

Call rates are the following with the sim:

- Local calls in the same city is US$0.09 per minute; long distance or incoming calls is $0.17 per minute; call to Hungary with IP code is $0.71 per minute.

I am pretty pleased right now, but of course the real test will be once I am in China and using the service.

Cheers

Ben

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