Originally Posted by
lsquare
That's an amazing plan if true. Are you still in China at the moment? Can you verify this? I would love to get that plan with China Unicom or China Mobile in Shanghai.
Porting number is difficult?
How did you set your phone to only use data for Alipay and WeChat Pay?
Is it possible for me to roam with T-Mobile and use Alipay/WeChat Pay?
I am not in China right now. I have this 8RMB plan for years. 0-min outbound voice, 300 outbound SMS, 200MB nationwide data, Incoming Caller ID, free incoming call and free incoming SMS. It's on China Unicom. I think it's a grandfather plan but many people pointblank ask for it.
My US number is on T-Mo, but I generally do not want to install Chinese apps on it. I had them installed a few years ago and it was painfully slow. T-Mo free roaming data is slow to start with and then the app's data traffic has to be routed back to the US and back again to China, so everything is just painfully slow. They require too many permission and god knows WeChat use up gigabytes of storage for no reason. My China Unicom SIM is on a Xiaomi phone that I dedicate for China. I just go into data settings and restrict other apps from mobile data. 200MB a month just enough for my one to two week trip for map and WeChat. I will do rest of data on my T-Mo phone. Even if I go over 200MB, I can buy like a 2GB data add-on for 7 to 10RMB if I remember correctly. Of course you will need a AliPay or WeChat Pay to pay for that add-on. Basically, AliPay/WeChat runs your life
