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update: a helpful hint from the good people over at The Flight Deal<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n

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@jonk<\/a> a tip: at HKG, go up to Departure level, there is a 1010 stand that sells SIMs with staff that speaks good english.<\/p>\n

— The Flight Deal (@TheFlightDeal) October 3, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

—<\/p>\n

who:<\/strong> one2free<\/a>, which came highly recommended by a HK local (i find this SO LOL-WORTHY, since umm, free is how someone with a Chinese accent might say three)<\/p>\n

where:<\/strong> according to Prepaid With Data wiki page for Hong Kong<\/a>, you should be able to buy SIM cards at 7-Elevens or other convenience stores. our airbnb is on the border of Causeway Bay and Wan Chai so we went down to Lockhart Road where we saw a 7-Eleven. unfortunately they didn’t have any one2free cards so we went down the block to the Circle K. they had a TON of cards there from all sorts of providers. the employee’s English was limited but thankfully i had my parents with me. i’m sure that you could manage, though, if you just asked for “one2free”. again, your mileage may vary depending on who’s manning the counter.<\/p>\n

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The Circle K employee was quite helpful and even had a nano-SIM cutter.<\/p><\/div>\n

what you need:<\/strong> money. LOL that’s it! just pay for the card and pop it in.<\/p>\n

price:<\/strong> there were several packs available with varying amounts of start funds. my dad got the HK$48 “Local Call” pack since all he wants is to use voice (and voice rates are much better with this card); i got the HK$100 (US $12.90) “Mobile Broadband” pack, though i’m not sure what the difference is here — it looks like you can qualify for the same types of data packages but the call prices are higher. it may be best to get the $48 “Local Call” SIM and top up so you have enough to get whatever data package you need (see below). <\/p>\n

activation:<\/strong> immediate. make a call or send an SMS to activate the card, it says. <\/p>\n

caution:<\/strong> there is a USSD code listed for buying data on the Prepaid Wiki page which matches a sticker on the package — HK$88 for 1 GB by dialing *101*833*3#, but every time i tried, i got an SMS saying it failed. maybe this plan doesn’t work with the Mobile Broadband card? i tried calling the service line that’s listed on the back of the package but everything is automated and i couldn’t get a human. <\/p>\n

starting to get worried, i popped open the User Guide leaflet:<\/p>\n

\"photo_3\"<\/a><\/p>\n

i saw you can manage your account by going to one2free.com\/nextg-prepaid (not linked since it only works on their 3G) and add a service pass. i was able to successfully purchase a 7-day pass.<\/p>\n

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i’m not sure what the difference is between the 1 GB 30-day pass for HK$88 and the 7-day unlimited internet pass for HK$78, but if you’re here for only a short amount of time, might as well go for the HK$78 deal. the fine print says that once you reach the fair use limit of 5 GB\/month, you may be given lower priority and your speed may drop during heavy network usage, but never below 128 kbps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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