Re: [79attendees] cell sim card recommendations

YAO Jiankang <healthyao@xxxxxxxxxxx> · Wed, 27 Oct 2010 19:36:28 +0800

if you call friends in China, you may use 
chinamobile.
BTW, if you call the number with the prefix 12593, 
that will be much cheaper.
for example, 12593-010-88888888

but, it is better, you just use it as the 
reciever.

if you want to call other persons, I recommend you to 
use skype.
when i travel to other countries, skype is my 
favority.

Jiankang Yao

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: 
  Hui Deng 

  To: dcrocker@xxxxxxxx ; 79attendees@xxxxxxxx 
  Cc: ietf@xxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2010 10:38 
  AM
  Subject: Re: [79attendees] cell sim card 
  recommendations

  Yes, you could only get sim card other than rent a a new phone.

  let me try to classify 3 operators
  1) China Mobile: 2G: GSM/GPRS/EDGE, 3G: TDSCDMA
  2) China Unicom: 2G: GSM/GPRS/EDGE, 3G:WCDMA
  3) China Telcom: 2G: CDMA, 3G:CDMA 2000 1XEVDO

  If you would like to get 3G capability, I would recommend to use China 
  Unicom.
but anyway, China Mobile has the best coverage nation wide.

  For buying a sim card inside the downtown, it must be very cheaper,
  Normally in Beijing, you could buy prepaid sim card say 100RMB,
  the cost will be 0.5 rmb per minutes, it will differently from each 
  opeartors.
  you may easily found them in newspaper selling both which should be very 
  near the hotel.
  it may cost 50RMB, I have no idea.

  -Hui

  2010/10/27 Dave CROCKER <dhc2@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

  Nihao,

The Beijing event info includes a reference 
    to getting a sim card at the airport:

  <http://www.ietf79.cn/show.php?contentid=46>

Some 
    references I've seen elsewhere on the net suggest perhaps getting a China 
    Mobile card in town at a store.  (For example, much 
    cheaper.)

What none of these provide is enough detail to know what 
    specific services will come with the card and at what price. 
     Predictably, I'm particularly interested in 3G data mode.

(Life 
    in Barcelona was made vastly more comfortable by a second-tier provider's 
    100MB/day service at 3 EU/day.  I'm hoping there is a similar option in 
    Beijing that is convenient to obtain.)

Suggestions?

d/
-- 

 Dave Crocker
 Brandenburg 
    InternetWorking
 bbiw.net
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