Originally Posted by
travelinmanS
I was jogging along the 4th ring road from the airport expressway exit to Chaoyang park and was trying to hold a phone convo at the same time. The call dropped 3 times in 10 minutes. The person I was talking to was in the middle of Jing'an. I told them that it was to be expected as I was in the middle of the capital and they were in the middle of China's largest city, we wouldn't expect to have good connectivity
. We both use Unicom.
Yikes. That's something that never happened to me. At least voice calls continued uninterrupted.
I wonder what % of Unicom's customers are postpaid customers, and how many of them are in contracts? Because I smell a class action lawsuit coming if a lot of those customers aren't free to leave. Remember when Cingular Wireless oversold service in California and was hit with a $18.5 million penalty?
http://www.howardforums.com/showthre...r-Call-Quality
But my understanding of the Chinese mobile phone market is that most customers are prepaid, no contract.
They seriously need to raise data prices for everyone to the same levels that I paid through mychinaunicom.com, until they can complete network upgrades that allow people to use more data without experiencing crappy quality of service. People are probably running torrents off of their phones (so would I if I were paying only ¥20/GB).