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Re: Guangzhou ... New Chapter

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Originally Posted by naemlo View Post
To all the 大哥 in GZ, 小弟 is going GZ for a few days then travel to other cities/province. It has been about 2 yrs since I last stepped into China and my current sim card expired.

I did a research online and know China Unicom offers 3G but I am a bit confuse.

1) They mentioned I need to go to any Unicom branch to register in order to use 3G else I will be using the old Edge. True?

2) Unicom sim card comes with package, XXX data, XXX voice.... can I purchase a card without? Just pay whatever air time I use for voice or data?

3) I will travelling around the China, is there a recommended Unicom sim card I need to purchase in GZ airport? Or all the sim cards are the same?

4) The sim card will deduct 5 RMB every month till balance goes zero and the card will expire. True?
my experience
i have a unicom SIM (called "ruyitong") which i got from the airport more than 2 years ago, it is a prepaid unicom "hi-card"
i topped up 100rmb every 6 months and the card is still active up to today
i think the active period follows the top up value, i topped up 200rmb once, found it still active after 9 months

but, there is limitation on topping up..u can only top up at a unicom telco shop counter.