Comments on: From China Mobile to China Unicom – Switching Service Providers

By: Tian

Tian — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 02:04:00 +0000

Thanks for the informative post on APN settings. Does anyone know how to set the Proxy for an iphone 4 running iOS4?

Thanks!
-Tian

By: scooptraynor

scooptraynor — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 05:34:00 +0000

Using only the APN name “CMNET” with the HTC Wildfire works perfectly for me, China Mobile hands out a number of setting for their APN details, but for some reason none of them are needed for either iPhone or HTC models.

By: Duncan Leung

Duncan Leung — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 16:10:03 +0000

Hmm, I see- I did try that too, but perhaps it was because the previous devices I was using only had Android 1.5. Right now I'm back on my crappy WinMo HTC Touch 2. Perhaps after I start working again I'll make an upgrade to an Android device =)

By: Cjfmsc

Cjfmsc — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 20:52:06 +0000

Sorry that's a HTC Desire and when setting up the APN the only thing to input was cmnet as the APN and to leave all the other requested info blank.

By: Cjfmsc

Cjfmsc — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 20:46:32 +0000

Hi,

I have a HTC and am using China Mobile GPRS with no problems. I am using cmnet as the APN.

By: Duncan Leung

Duncan Leung — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 07:18:13 +0000

Hi Adrianjin-

Yeah, there are packages similar to China Mobile. This website helped me out a lot when I was looking at the China Unicom packages: http://chinabites.com/blog/2009/oct/22/china-un...

By: Adrianjin

Adrianjin — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 07:08:51 +0000

Hi Duncan, I just got a prepaid 3g china unicom card and was just wondering how is the data charged? do they have packages like china mobile as well

Thanks

By: Duncan Leung

Duncan Leung — Sat, 29 May 2010 14:39:41 +0000

Hi John,

To my knowledge, there isn't a way to SMS China Unicom to check your balance (there is a way to do it for China Mobile, but I asked the sales rep at China Unicom about a similar service, and he said there wasn't one available).

The way that I pay each month is just by buying the recharge cards- I think there is a way to do so by linking up to your ICBC bank, but that would have required some vocabulary that I currently don't possess =)

If you call China Unicom, the number should be 10010, you can ask to speak with an English representative. Their english is quite good. I guess you can ask about alternative payment methods as well. I just haven't bothered to yet as there's a small shop that sells refill cards right outside my house.

Hope you enjoy China!

By: John

John — Sat, 29 May 2010 10:42:45 +0000

I just did the switch myself today, but haven't checked it out yet. Does anyone know if there's a way to SMS China Unicom to check your balance (ala China Mobile)? Also, what's the easiest way to pay each month? Is there an online portal I can use my ICBC bank card on?

One last question: I read on another blog that you have to wait an hour, and then call China Unicom to activate the monthly plan (I got the 66 RMB student one)… is that correct? What number do I call, and what's the easiest way for a beginner mandarin speaker to do this?

Sorry for all the questions — just arrived in China about 3 months ago, and I'm still trying to navigate my way through all of the new things I have to learn.

By: lifengwu

lifengwu — Tue, 04 May 2010 21:56:40 +0000

I just brought a Blackberry 9700 from AT&T USA, into Beijing. Got Unicom's 3G voice/data combo plan for about 240yuan per month, 300M data.

GPRS works fine, but when switched to 3G, a lot of problems occur. Anyone using 3G on China Unicom successfully with a Blackbery 9700?