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How does mobile roaming for mainland Chinese visiting HK work? Are they put on a different VNET which still experiences censorship? After all HK phone providers
by verst 7y ago
How does mobile roaming for mainland Chinese visiting HK work? Are they put on a different VNET which still experiences censorship? After all HK phone providers could have secret agreements to enforce the GFW filtering (redirect traffic through China etc) for Chinese citizens.
When I visit mainland China on my T-Mobile roaming plan I am on some sort of separate subnet that is uncensored and I can continue to access services I cannot use with a China SIM card.
- zoom6628 7y agoMost visitors from mainland China are people who also own iPhones. Until the X models the iPhone did not support multiple SIM cards so visitors would buy local HK prepaid cards which means they are on HK uncensored phone systems and networks. If you are on mainland number with roaming or even a second local HK number attached to your China SIM card you are still subject to censorship because everything data goes back through mainland servers even though your access points are in HK. All the above I know from personal experience - lived in China 12 years and now resident in HK.