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Related question: In China, how annoying is it to switch numbers? In America, nearly everything I have is linked to my email address, not phone number. I recen
by usaar333 13y ago
Related question: In China, how annoying is it to switch numbers?
In America, nearly everything I have is linked to my email address, not phone number. I recently had to change phone numbers and it was a quick task -- just emailed all my friends & family I had a new number and that was that.
(changing emails, on the other-hand, would be extremely time-consuming)
Are things not so email-linked in China? (I've noticed that a lot of services there, (even free wifi!!) are connected to mobile numbers, not email address).
- rahimnathwani 13y agoIt's really annoying, for the reasons you mentioned. Apart from banks and online shopping sites, many offline loyalty programs (restaurants, massage, beauty ...) use mobile number as a unique identifier. Having said that, I've noticed over the last few months that people I meet are more likely to request/offer a WeChat (威信) username than a phone number. Businesses are embracing WeChat for marketing-related activity, but I don't yet see any indication that WeChat will become the primary mechanism for transactional notices.
- usaar333 13y agoThanks. BTW, the Hanzi are 微信 :)
- rahimnathwani 13y agoOops. Too late to edit now :(
- seanmcdirmid 13y ago> In China, how annoying is it to switch numbers? Take out the sim card, put another one in. I've done it a few times. Free wifi is a recurring pain that is orthogonal to if you change your number or not. But you'd better change your number with the banks, I don't have anything else that is really linked.
- antimagic 13y agoIn France, you can change operator, and your number comes with you. I haven't changed my phone number for 10 years!
- rahimnathwani 13y agoSame in the UK. It used to take a few days. Now it's more like minutes/hours.