Originally Posted by
STS-134
Yeah, but you guys also warned me that those types of places only sell cards to tourists who don't look Chinese, due to recent sting operations that always involve people who look Chinese.
To be quite honest, that was me, not moondog, who told you about that. And I only figured out when I had to go buy SIM cards for other people, and no one would sell me pre-registered ones despite moondog insisting that they knew people would, until I got the people I was buying for to come with me.
Originally Posted by moondog
The China Mobile cross border SIM is currently a better product, and data only costs ~HK$30/G if you get on a plan (need HKID or cash deposit)
I'd go the 4G Pro route with cash deposit if it was possible to go month to month, but it looks like they want you to sign up to a 12-month term at a time when I'm only there for school holidays. Anything less and they seem to want you to go prepaid, which is a much costlier HK$300/4GB after the initial HK$150/1.5GB. That and I've had my mainland China Mobile number for 10 years now, and I'd rather not ditch it.