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Q: Can you buy burner phones in China?

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Why?  Planning a career as a drug dealer or something?

wSchuyler88:

That earns big bucks in 'Merica, just sayin.

 

Check into Pharmacy school and you'll see what i mean...

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Yup, and in P.R.C. it earns execution.

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yes, 5 years in pharmacy school in philippines at about 3500 dollars a year, and pass the foreign pharmacy equivalency test, 1500 hours under a licensed pharmacist and now you legally earn 2000 dollars a week in america.

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Why?  Planning a career as a drug dealer or something?

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That earns big bucks in 'Merica, just sayin.

 

Check into Pharmacy school and you'll see what i mean...

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Yup, and in P.R.C. it earns execution.

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yes, 5 years in pharmacy school in philippines at about 3500 dollars a year, and pass the foreign pharmacy equivalency test, 1500 hours under a licensed pharmacist and now you legally earn 2000 dollars a week in america.

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No. SIM cards must be registered to the buyer. 

xunliang:

Says who? You can buy SIM cards at small shops, even those holes in the walls. You really think they're registering your info? Or even asking for it? 

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Hotwater:

Those SIM cards have to be registered to someone!

 

i use gokunming occasionally and there has been a long running topic on there until recently about the problems foreigners are having getting SIM cards there. 

 

http://www.gokunming.com/en/forums/thread/9292/no_sim_cards_for_foreigners

 

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Yup. China Telecom told me the cut of date is tomorrow (or at some point in July). If the SIM is not registered to an ID it will be cut off. I think they are taking it serious this time. When I went to register my SIM they had a dedicated desk in the shop. I offered my passport and they refused it. My wife offered her ID and they accepted it.

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What's a burner phone? 

 

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A burner phone is the american term for a pre paid mobile phone. I thought you were american?

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Pah-lease. Just cause person A is from country B doesn't mean that they understand 100% of the lingo of country B. Absolute horse ***t. Master Worthington calls that a go phone.

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No problem. Just buy a sim car from one of the local shop that are not afiliated with china mobile or anyother network, the samsung or nokia phone shops, they will have a selection of numbers for you to choose from.

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Whats a sim car? 

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fada:

Its a simulated form of vehicular transport, everything you need to know is in the name already

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They're easy to find. Go to the really shoddy parts of your city or to the area with the most foreign hotels. If all else fails, pay a Chinese some money to make one for you.

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I guess I should have used the term pay-as-you-go or disposable phone. I mean a very cheap phone which doesn't require a monthly plan. If you lose it, no problemo! 

ScotsAlan:

Easy to get. Just need to register the SIM card against your passport at the shop. Go to a proper China Telecom or China Unicom shop. Put a few hundred RMB on the card, then you can add credit at many corner shops. Almost all phones are sold unlocked here. None of this tied to network like in the west.

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Yes, using the correct terminology helps!

 

You can buy a basic phone for a couple of hundred here and even get reasonable smart phones for not much more but....make sure your phone matches the network. If you're going to use china mobile buy the phone from there. All 3 companies use different 3G systems if you're wanting any data usage. If you just want to talk and send texts then it won't matter. 

 

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