I want this blog to be about experiences. Good or Bad. It’s about our lives. I hope I do not offend anyone, as I am not only focusing on the negative, or will try not to!
I want to be positive and well, at least just neutral. Certain days, certain things just really set me off though.
Lets just talk about cellphones.
We will discuss in this order, My mom, me, and George.
We each have a unique and different situation and will have dramatically different solutions.
Each one more complicated and seemingly impossible then the next.
my mom. She is a Chinese citizen, with a US green card. Meaning she has a Chinese passport, a China resident card and a legal US resident. She already have a Chinese phone number. However, we notices, she can’t call or do anything outside of wifi. Her account either does not have enough money, or is suspended… something. Bless my mom. She has no idea about her phone. (maybe like some grandmas out there.) My dad was busy in meetings and could not readily be reached. In my hast, (we need a working PHONE in china and not rack up charges for our US phones with all this roaming!!) we went into China Mobile. They look at her phone, ask where she got her number, she got it years ago in Beijing. Sorry, they told us. Only Beijing can deal with Beijing distributed numbers. They can not help her. However, they did tell her, the issue with her phone is an upgrade to 4G is needed. (in Beijing China Mobile store. Not in any other city China mobile) So, maybe at this time, I would like to introduce Bing’s WTF (World Travel Frustration) Scale. 1 is a small annoyance and 10 is bulging veins ready to pop along with the eyeballs. So, now, I am like WTF 3, seems heavily regulated. Ok. What is the solution. They ultimately told us, they can give my mom another number, that is already 4G ready, so she can be good to go with 1G data plan a day, for about 50RBM (at the time of post, @6.79 xrate )$7.36. Not too bad. Sort of done. She now needs 2 phones or get her original number upgraded, or a phone that can accept 2 sim cards. Ok. WTF 3, still it was doable, and we only inhaled about 15 minutes of cigarette smoke as the young men set her up. Oh, fun fact, you have to have a Chinese resident card in order to get a china phone number. So… stay tuned for what is going to happen for Bing and George. We both do not have a Chinese resident card.
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