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Old Nov 29, 2012 | 8:42 pm
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beep88
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- People's Chinamobile 78HKD/month unlimited EDGE(2.5G) speed. I used it on my 3GS and it's slow. I don't have whatsapp so have no idea how the performance is like

- other than that, it's One2Free/1010 or "3" or smartone ~340/month for 3G/HSDPA

- You can't get a monthly subscription plan unless you have a HK ID card or pay a significant cash deposit


Local forum discussion(in Chinese):

http://board.phonehk.com/viewthread....d%2B%A4W%BA%F4

Highlights from the discussion:

If you are adventurous enough or you know someone local to go with you, you can buy the 600HKD(face value, retails for ~150 at Apliu Street or yahoo auction ONLY) Smartone iPhone Micro SIM , first month unlimited, after that there is "fair usage" I suppose. Monthly maximum data billing 298 (remember the face value is 600 so enough for 2 months I guess). People were still talking about it on the forum last month so it should still be available. It's probably part of an iPhone hardware bundle and people sell the cards separately.


CSL Kumusta Ka Kababayan - prepaid for the Filipino market. You may have to go to the Filipino mall to get it (such as Worldwide House, Central) but should try your nearest CSL store first.

3G Data Plan
$78 500M/month

http://one2free.hkcsl.com/jsp/prepai...n_sim_indo.jsp

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