Shanghai eases SIM card access for visitors
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- Опубликовано: 2 окт 2024
- Foreign visitors to Shanghai, rejoice! Getting connected in the city is now a breeze with short-term SIM cards available for seven to 30 days. Plus, you can enjoy English services at outlets, hotlines, and fully online application services. Check out more on:
www.shine.cn/n...
Stay connected, make calls, surf the web, and use all your favorite apps for transportation, food delivery, and more. Happy traveling!
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Happy to know that China is finally making life easier for visitors!!
I think this SIM card the important point is it will also include a local number. Not just a data access.
That's true. You cannot get a SIM card with local number in Japan, and many online reservations (e.g. restaurants) require a local number.
The funny thing is in China allows you to choose a mobile number for a short term Sim card esp. as a tourist. I'm from Australia and I gotten a short term Sim card in Indonesia, Vietnam, the US, and Portugal before and never had I had the opportunity to choose the number I wanted.
Thanks for the vid and info. Good news for travellers.
You can better buy SIM card in Hong Kong before going to China. Hong Kong SIM cards you can use for any website, nothing is blocked. You can use as normal China cards: get wifi passwords etc. You can top up with any international credit card more convenient than China cards. Best of course is that you don't need to use VPN to access google and facebook.
Is HK SIM card able to open a mainland China bank account??
@@kitlee4486 You can try. I think you need a tax payer number to open an account. It is not so easy now.
what if i landed @ Shanghai? can i buy HK sim?
@@fatdoi003 Not sure. Some Asian countries might have special plans for China roaming.
You can get data sim card in HK thats fine. But it wont give you a mainland phone number which is handy and required to register with a lot of APP
finally, thank you😀
❤good for short term stay travellers. What about short term eSIM? Thank you.
Need short term eSIM
Why the foreigners not using the roaming service of their own cards?
Because foreign sim cards do not work with any china online shopping APPs, such as JingDong, Pin duoduo and Taobao. Therefore, purchasing a China SIM Card is very helpful. Unless you don't want to buy anything online.
Because it is super expensive when roaming outside their countries.
A lot of services like ride hailing, online your bookings, restaurant reservations etc use SMS which require a local number.
For obvious reasons that travellers all know.
Because they want to track you.
very useful information !
Is short-term eSIM available?
That's what I'm wondering too! I found them very useful when I was going on bus tours in Europe. If I had to buy a SIM card in person, it would almost be impossible. I didn't have time in the airport because the tour guide just escorted us to the bus from airport arrivals and I never could find a mobile phone service store (tried out of curiosity). Thank goodness for eSIMs while I was in Europe.
Tried buying a short term sim card in US and see what happens.
You can buy one anywhere anytime without ID
Good news for travellers.
china have this in 2000, i can go any shop and buy a sim and pop in phone and used i did not even need to give passport or id
嗯，怀念不用实名登记的年代。
@@48街8号你是不是也很怀念身份盗窃诈骗横行，犯罪猖獗的年代
Telecom fraud is too much frequent, that's why real name registration is now required for SIM card application process.
@@48街8号 lucky even today in canada i can buy a sim card with 30 gb data and used it in china for 2 weeks for $40 cad
Now I need a good VPN that works in China.
About time!!
Can I also buy a local cell phone and install the SIM card in the airport?
You can use your own "foreign" cell phone, why do you want to buy a "local" one? The local SIM will work in your foreign cell phone.
The answer is yes if you arrive at Pudong Airport Terminal 2. They opened a new International service center this month, where you can purchase SIM card. Also they will help you to set up local SIM card.
Only in Shanghai? Or other cities as well?
Most cities have similar policy but may vary.
To some Tourists, taking a photo of my passport would freak them out.. the Chinese government will be taking my personal data!! Ha Ha.
Freak out when photo is taken? How do they get through immigration?
Will these sim cards allow access to Google Maps, email, texting, and all of the other apps that foreigners use?
Use VPN or your foreign SIM on roaming cost.
Otherwise, ask those platforms you want to use to comply with the laws of the countries they want to operate in.😊
@@tkh2944 If you don't know the answer to my question, don't bother me.
Use Hong Kong sim cards, they have special plans for China roaming. Very cheap
@@littlebrit can you buy HK sims in China?
@@tkh2944 Why not route this SIM cards which are registered using foreign passport to official VPN set by the government so tourist can access these apps?
Only in Shanghai?
Every country requires passport for sim card now… sadly
there are many countries where you don't need. But list is getting smaller
@@littlebrit only poor corrupt countries. Good luck finding a pay phone
@@drunkdrftr You don't really understand what are you saying, don't you ?
@@littlebrit huh?
Um, it's really not difficult to have your passport with you when you are... entering another country.
最关键的是这些卡要能上国外的网啊，像Facebook等等的网站。希望有关当局能推出这种卡方便外国旅客。
这是把那些机场的生意都给搞没了。
Use VPN or your foreign SIM on roaming cost.
Otherwise, ask those platforms you want to use to comply with the laws of the countries they want to operate in.😊
你做梦啊，不可能的。很多人不买SIM卡，后面麻烦的事情实在太多了。因为很多人在线买东西，但都需要本地SIM卡。还有就是很多外国手机卡都无法收到手机验证码，无法注册东西，就是因为是境外卡。我们单位一大堆外国分公司的员工来上海接受产品培训，问我京东怎么买，淘宝怎么买，烦死了。而且用外国漫游的卡访问境内很多网站速度都非常慢，因为他们是漫游回到他们国家本地再访问中国境内网站。我记得即使是在香港访问境内网站都不快。
早该这么做！
many countries sell sim at phone shops and easily register too. this china telecom only shop is too limited and the price is too expensive.
Then, don't use, easy enough.
@@ytfanlingeric Im not using. no sorry but im not a low iq villager farmer who talk nonsenses to others comments.
30 day plan for 195 rmb is not expensive at all.
@@robbrand922 yeah, rich people will say rmb5000 for 1 week is not expensive.
这种卡应该直接带vpn那种 毕竟人家已经习惯那么海外软件了 工作要做细 不是每个人都会使用vpn