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A couple of rants

June 7th, 2006 by Greg

1) It seems that in Yunnan it is impossible to get a SIM card with International SMS and International calling. China Mobile in Yunnan Province offers a plethora of different SIM cards with different rates and services but combining them is somehow beyond them and voicemail isn’t available in Yunnan at all yet. My friend tells me from a reliable source that this is entirely intentional so that people buy a handful of different SIM cards and spend more money to use these different services.

2) The thought police in their infinate wisdom have decided to make it difficult to access gmail. Thankfully I can still access my spiritually polluting email account through a proxy.

I need a trip home. Luckily I’m having one next week!

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5 Responses to “A couple of rants”

  1. on 27 Jun 2006 at 12:20 pm   jr

    hope you can get a sim card

  2. on 18 Aug 2006 at 12:09 am   Raspie

    Hi…

    Gmail blocked in China ? Strange… I haven’t noticed anything about that so far… I say ‘so far’... As we know things can change rapidly around here…

    Anyway… Great BLOG you have here… I will keep an eye on it and added it to my Blogroll aswell… if you don’t mind… :-)

  3. on 18 Aug 2006 at 10:42 am   Greg

    actually it wasn’t blocked for long. you get the occasional day where you cant access any google pages.

  4. on 17 Sep 2006 at 12:11 pm   Another Greg

    Hey G,

    I have been here for a month, only had a couple days where there were issues with gmail. Not sure if they are China-related.

    A few ideas you may already be familiar with that could help with web-browsing and international calls if you have your own computer to install some stuff:

    If you want to escape all web restrictions, try Tor (tor.eff.org). It allows you to browse anonymously and get to any site you want. It slows down your browsing, but you can turn it off when you don’t need to access things like foreign news…

    I use skype for all my international calls—costs 2cents a minute to many countries. www.skype.com. You just buy $10 credit at a time. Calls are usually clear if you have a headset/microphone (you call over your computer), and a high-speed connection.

    Hope this info is helpful

  5. on 25 Sep 2006 at 6:59 pm   Greg

    Already been onto both Tor and Skype for a while, both very useful.

    Thanks.

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