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This might sound like a naive or stupid question, so please help me out here: Let's say I live in Shenzhen. Isn't it possible to connect via a normal phone lin
by toni 10y ago
This might sound like a naive or stupid question, so please help me out here:
Let's say I live in Shenzhen. Isn't it possible to connect via a normal phone line to a dial-up service in Hong Kong and enjoy an almost uncensored (albeit very slow) internet? Or is that a bit far-fetched?
- robjan 10y agoIt would probably be quite expensive as, in most cases, calls to +852 are considered to be long-distance. I don't think internet access is as restricted in SZ as other parts of the mainland, as I am pretty sure that I bought an unrestricted SIM at the HK-SZ border last time I crossed.
- toni 10y agoYou are right that it will be very expensive. Thanks for the tip about buying an unrestricted SIM-card at the border with HK. Will the SIM-card also work in remote parts of China? Or is it only usable in Shenzhen?
- janekm 10y agoInternet access in SZ is also restricted, but you are right that you can buy an unrestricted SIM on the border, but that is actually a HK SIM (or dual network sim) so your data connections are terminated in HK and hence not filtered.