Originally posted by dbg00 at 10-9-2011 07:21
get a local sim card for your regular phone and divert your phone calls to this number. it saves you a lot of money and people calling you will not realize the difference apart from the connection bei ...
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think that's efficient for incoming calls. Say for instance I divert a U.S. number to a local sim, then my U.S. number will be charged the cost ofa call to HK anyway, so I'm not saving any money and I might as well just pick up my U.S. phone and answer. Now one can call out on a local sim and save a lot on the international call (rather than call on a U.S. cell phone in Hong Kong), but then you're using a number no one will recognize and will constantly get screened out.
I need to use my foreign cell phone when I'm in HK, and it used to not give me a choice of local carrier, but now it lights up with a ton of choices. It would be useful to know which carrier to roam on without having to experiment with $1,000 bills on each.