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Q: where in Shenzhen can I buy a China sim card?
I visit Chna quite often and I have been able to buy a china sim card in Shanghai and Xiamen with no problems. However my experience in Shenzhen is to be told no at shop using China Mobile and also China Unicom.
You should be able to buy from any phone shop. And you don't even have to register your name and address. If you are coming in from Hong Kong you can get Unicom just before the exit. It's 100RMB and you can use that in Hong Kong as well. They'll even cut the card to size if you are using an iphone. Maybe you should visit the smaller shops. Those are 60RMB a pop.
Why not just keep the cards from earlier, if it is prepaid, top them with some cash, or alternatively get a subscription, they can be really cheap if you can accept slightly higher rates.
ScotsAlan:
Yup.
It can actually be cheaper to use a Chinese sim in your home country to call China than it is to use a home country sim.
Data rates are very cheap compared to the west
I think it's because Chinese telecom companies are state owned, so they don't have to pay multi billion dollar license fees to buy bandwidths. That's a common hidden tax in the west.
Scandinavian:
Hmmm, China has insanely high data prices compared to what you can get in Europe where "flat rate" seems to be the norm, or at least the cheapest subscriptions would have some Gb of data per month .... and at way higher speeds
