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badr -

Indeed gato,

I just tested that by connecting my Sony Ericsson ( just GPRS, not EDGE) to my mac.. after 15mn of
browsing, my mobile was completely out of credit!! !Actually, it was deep in the negative
territories ( -25RMB)

ouch!

I'm gonna sign up for China Unicom's CDMA modem thingy tomorrow 800RMB for 6 months of unlimited
connection anywhere in China



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roddy -

Ouch - particularly worrying that they let you go into negative territory, you could quite easily
run up nasty bills if you didn't realize you had windows update running in the background or
something.

/ goes to check his new phone's podcast software isn't automatically updating.










ipsi() -

It'd technically be 12RMB/minute, but only if you're using the full speed of the connection, and
if you're doing that a lot, I'd be pretty surprised. I also reckon you could easily keep it under
2G a month, provided that you're not doing silly things like using it as a replacement for a fixed
line internet connection.

But yeah, I also had bad experiences with running into the negatives when I was in China with my
680... . Didn't help that I couldn't understand what the hell the automated voice was saying when
I tried to make a call.

And China's still cheaper than NZ, where it's 65￥/MB...










cdn_in_bj -

China Mobile has started limited public trials of their 3G service (TD-SCDMA protocol) in select
cities:

http://www.china.org.cn/business/200...t_13793648.htm










Shadowdh -

Yeah I saw that on the news channel this morning... they were all giddy showing video calls and
watching tv on phones... I thought it was more than 8 cities though (although to be honest I was
not paying too much attention and only glanced at the box which showed which cities it was going
to be in)... cant wait to get to Beijing next week and give it a whirl...










imron -



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cant wait to get to Beijing next week and give it a whirl...

Will you be buying a TD-SCDMA phone just to give it a whirl?










Shadowdh -

Ah so thats the catch is it, I have a Kaiser/tytnII/VarioIII that does cdma and gsm and 3g, umts,
hsdpa etc but will it not work? So its not like the uk where you can pick up 3g where its
broadcast then? I thought it might... sigh, showing my technamalogical ignorance again...










cdn_in_bj -



Quote:

So its not like the uk where you can pick up 3g where its broadcast then?

Right now they're only testing the home-grown TD-SCDMA standard, so your phone won't work. Wait a
year and maybe they'll have W-CDMA in operation here, in which case you might be able to use
yours. But even then it'll also depend on which W-CDMA frequencies they settle on.










ipsi() -

I hope they put up a nice, *globally standard* 3G network, as buying another phone just for the
benefits of 3G seems a little harsh.










imron -



Quote:

I hope they put up a nice, *globally standard* 3G network

Nope, 3g is even more fragmented than 2g (and 2.5g).


Quote:

Wait a year and maybe they'll have W-CDMA in operation here

By which time, the rest of the world will be starting on 4g












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