Useful for anyone doing a layover.
Includes:
- China
- Greece
- Japan
- Portugal
- Spain
- Turkey
- United Kingdom
- United States
Free $0 1GB 1-Day eSIM: China (Chinacom) & 7 Other Countries - New Customers Only @ Airalo
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There is no timeframe to activate
how does one determine whether any company or data roaming provider charges by exact kb or in blocks of MB?
Thanks OP. Might be handy
EDIT: T/C never mention expire and need to start dates.
Any one know the answer?
There is no timeframe to activate
For China you need a VPN to access the "unfiltered" internet. Otherwise the data is pretty useless. Nothing western is accessible, surprisingly ozbargain was loading for me.
It literally felt like you had no internet, lost access to Gmail, google search, YouTube, western news. Quite depressing and frustrating at the same time.
What method did you use to access the internet? Was it a sim card at a airport in Mainland China? You generally don't need a VPN if using a esim.
Which vpn would people recommend that works there. There were very few that could tunnel out last time i was there a decade ago.
LetsVPN worked well for me and lots of other people report good things too. You can share the VPN accross 2 different devices. Payments are processed in USD but still very good value. Pick the Platinum membership so you can select any country. I mainly used it on hotel wifi.
as a kid i had a faint memory of google in china possibly before the great firewall.
but actually it mightve just been the computers in our hotel being routed to Hong Kong as I do recall it saying google.hk or something like that
What about access to What's app or FB Messenger?
Having used this airalo simcard free esim twice during a layover in guangzhou.
it actually connects/routes to HK servers.
foreigners signing up don't need vpn as it usually routes thru the firewall into HK.
the wifi free airport didn't work tho obviously and blocked a lot of sites plus wasn't able to get it to work with nordvpn or anything either.
but yeah i found out about these free airalo sims and it was pretty useful on my iphone.
any esim you signed up outside china that can data roaming will enable any access for youtube or western anything.
your case is only when you bought sim that is in china. e.g. china mobile will have limited the access or western internet 'surf stuffs'.
but here the data will use up so quickly that lost the point in the case
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For those who wanted to have a free VPN in China, use this:
Rule based VPN also known as policy based VPN
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Put in profile as
http://9oo.net/ss
Once joined & got eSim
- How long time frame to activate…
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