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Old Sep 7, 2019, 11:33 pm
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moondog
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Originally Posted by username
On some of the Beijing buses, they have Wifi antenna and said that you can use some App to connect to it. Is this what you are talking about? Somehow one actually use an App to connect to the Wifi rather than whatever the phone does?

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I was thinking more along the lines of places where you might bring a laptop like Starbucks. When I'm just using my phone, I usually don't bother with wifi. In addition to being cheap, data is easy to buy via WeChat, and you don't need a Chinese bank account for mobile top up payments.
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