After a year of using PCCW 3G Web & Talk, I decided to give China Mobile GPRS a try. It cost a little more than PCCW but I think it worth a try and it’s contract free.
For $110.00 Hkd, I can use unlimited GPRS/EDGE and Wifi. Whereas, If I signed a new contract with PCCW, the price is $98.00, 100mb GPRS, Unlimited Wifi and I have to sign a 18 month contract.
PCCW does have it pros.
PCCW Pros
1. Voice quality is Superb. The reception is very good.
2. They stated GPRS but you actually get 3G and sometime HSDPA quality on the data. So, it’s much fast than China Mobile.
3. They have one of the largest Wifi Hotspot in HK. From Starbucks, Pacific Coffee, 7-11 to MTR.
PCCW Cons
1. Customer support. Worst. On the phone directory, the first level will not indicate which button to press for a real life customer rep.
2. Wifi – Even though they have the largest Wifi Hotspot but in Hong Kong, I find Wifi is quite irrelevant. Would you sit on the floor of the MTR stations or stand outside of 7-11, take your laptop or smartphone out, search for wifi connection(not counting the time needed for window to boot-up) and goes through multiple step just to log-in and check email or google maps?
China Mobile Pros
1. Unlimited GPRS/EDGE and Wifi. You can be on MTR, bus, taxi, in a conference room, taking a dump or anywhere. You are connected. I don’t need to worry about maxing out my 60MB or 100MB.
China Mobile Cons
1. Voice Quality – it’s a known fact their voice quality is low. Probably they don’t have that many communication towers to bounce the signal. So, if you are standing behind a lamp post. You might not get the signal. At this point, I can live with the poor reception.
Ok..so far. This is what I have on China Mobile. I have not called their customer support on the phone, yet. So, can’t comment on that. Will update this post when I have more info.
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one big advantage of china mobile, which may be irrelevant to you – irrelevant to me as well – is that you can integrate your guangdong number to your hk sim and share the bill. it’s convenient.
kin,
Yes, you are right, at this moment it’s irrelevant to me, I don’t cross the border much. Unless down the road, I have a biz over at guangzhou.
Kin, thks for the information.