Using a Blackberry in Shanghai

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jeffrigs

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Joined: July 06, 2004
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Posted: July 25, 2004 - 01:44 AM
Post subject: Using a Blackberry in Shanghai

I'm going to be arriving in China next week with a Blackberry PDA, currently operating on AT&T Wireless. The roaming service via AT&T will be incredibly expensive once I get there, so I plan to switch to a local provider as soon as possible. What should I do?

RaoulDuke

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Joined: July 12, 2004
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Posted: July 25, 2004 - 03:31 AM

If I recall correctly, A Blackberry uses MMS protocol for messaging. MMS is available for mobile phones here, but I don't know if it'll work with your Blackberry or not. When you get here, find a very fluent bilingual friend to go with you to the mobile phone providers- China Mobile and China Unicom- to see if those companies can fix you up.

sunshineca

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Joined: July 25, 2004
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Posted: July 25, 2004 - 03:41 AM
Post subject: Re: Using a Blackberry in Shanghai

jeffrigs wrote:

AT&T blackberry only work in serveral cities at Mainland china. Beijing, shanghai ..

it will automatic switch to local provider once your arrive .

snowbytes

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Joined: June 29, 2004
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Posted: Aug 04, 2004 - 03:01 PM

you dont need to do anything it will switch,, the only prob is the local data feed goes down often so u might not be able to recieve or send data.. I use it ,,, you wont be charged the extra roaming if you have the international call plan with ATT ,,

cschrage

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Joined: Aug 20, 2004
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Posted: Aug 20, 2004 - 02:06 AM

Hi,

I have a user who spends half the year in China and half in the USA.
They would like a Blackberry and want to have a SIM card for each country. I see China Mobile is the carrier to be used.
How do I get in contact with them??