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Pre-paid Stored-value SIM in Hong Kong

December 24, 2010 Hong Kong

People overseas have asked if I can recommend a stored-value SIM package for them during their stay in Hong Kong, so instead of repeating my answer over an over I’ve decided to create a post. Before reading this post one needs to understand one thing about the mobile market in Hong Kong. It is very [...]

100 Mbps Broadband Upgrade [Updated]

November 18, 2010 Opinion

My broadband service provider, Netvigator (by PCCW), throw the switch of my broadband connection this morning to upgrade it from 30 Mbps to 100 Mbps. Although Netvigator has fiber services to homes unfortunately this is not available for my home. Instead what Netvigator offers at my address is DSL at 100 Mbps. Since my DSL [...]

Micro-SIM Availability in Hong Kong

June 21, 2010 iPad

Recently you may have just purchased one of Apple’s latest gadgets, the iPad WiFi+3G, from the 9 countries officially selling them, or plans to get one of the iPhone 4 from either Canada, France and UK. This is because all iPad WiFi+3G (except the ones sold in Japan) and iPhone 4 sold in Canada, France, UK and Hong [...]

Choosing a 3G Tariff Plan in Hong Kong for iPad

May 25, 2010 iPad

With the pending iPad official release by Apple Hong Kong some time in July, mobile carriers in Hong Kong have begin to release tariff plans designed specifically to target iPad owners. Among them only 3 HK currently has a data plan that comes with either a regular mini-SIM or the new micro-SIM. The rest of [...]

Speed of 3G Network in Hong Kong

November 8, 2009 Mobile

Early this year both PCCW and CSL launched their HSPA+ network. As a result improving the speed and capacity of their respective networks. Offering a theoretical downlink speed of 21Mbps and uplink speed of 7Mbps. On Wednesday, November 4th Smartone-Vodafone (SMV) launched their HSPA+ upgrade to their 3G network. The difference between SMV’s announcements and [...]

PCCW Netvigator Broadband Interruption Compensations

August 18, 2009 Advice

Started about 14:00 yesterday (August 17, 2009) Hong Kong time access to majority of the Internet web services hosted outside of Asia was unreachable. This first happened at my home with Netvigator Home Broadband service. I Tweeted about this hoping to get confirmation from others in Hong Kong. I also left to tried to see [...]

MMS With iPhone 3.0 On iPhone 3G [Updated]

June 15, 2009 iPhone

When I the create the post, To iPhone 3G S or Not?, I was not able to enable the MMS function on my iPhone 3G. Before I explain how to enable MMS on an iPhone 3G running the iPhone 3.0 firmware, let me explain my context. My iPhone 3G is the officially “SIM unlocked” version [...]

PCCW – Netvigator Outrageous

February 1, 2009 Opinion

This evening (20:52) my girlfriend received a call on her mobile from PCCW Netvigator telephone salesperson. Like in most cases when one receive this sort of unsolicited telephone call, she simply told the salesperson on the phone that she does not have time to talk, which was the case this evening, as she was [...]

New Tariff Plan from Smartone-Vodafone for iPhone

November 15, 2008 iPhone

As I still found my Smartone-Vodafone charges too high, I decided to look for alternatives, including those from competitors, like: PCCW, Three and People. For those of you who’ve been following my ideal iPhone tariff plan search in Hong Kong, you will know that I had been using Smartone-Vodafone’s 3G voice plan (HKD128/month) + Internet [...]

iPhone 3G Unleash-able from Three HK

July 12, 2008 iPhone

There was a report last night that the iPhone 3G sold by the carrier, Three, in Hong Kong is unlocked; meaning it is not tied to a specific carrier. This news was a bit hard to believe as news from other countries like US, Japan, Australia and New Zealand, the iPhone 3G sold there are [...]

[Repost] Truth About PCCW’s Netvigator Service

April 17, 2007 Advice

Repost from: Vinko’s Satellite Blog For those who do not know, “Netvigator” is the ISP (Internet Service Provider) owned and operated by PCCW of Hong Kong. Like many ISP now a days, Netvigator offers a series of different broadband packages. I subscribe to their “8M Single User” plan, which means a “8Mbps service”. Like all [...]