— some advantages of CmLink

• Hotline is 24/7 (better than Sgp telcos), faster at night, faster for Chinese language, because CMLink is designed for China nationals.
• Email support (cssg) is excellent .. fast and more efficient than call 🙂
• simple webGUI… no mobileAPP required. Low Sys2 load
• No contract
• No risk of excess data usage in China or Sg

— Monitor 余额+套餐流量 .. PPD (PrepaidDeposit/余额) is probably similar to Mainland ChnM system.

• 1st of each month system try to deduct monthly fee from PPD. If no PPD balance, (or  $x deficit amount) would be auto-charged to THE card. I have completed one-time card binding.
• .. I find this useful for BocDcard. I was able to top up $13 to my cmLink accounts.
• SMS (CX or CHECK to 75086) is easiest method, while in Singapore
• SSP [i.e. self-service portal] is easiest method while in China.
• You can check roaming data usage online but it would disappear after EOM. 套餐流量 esp. roaming balance.. updated every 2H roughly.
• No stupid mobile app (re Starhub) imposed on me

— talk time quota

• free incoming locally
• 100m local outgoing, including 100m from local to [China+US++] but must use +86xxxx. See SMS or SSP for details.
• Excess outgoing minutes .. charged at S$0.10/minute. Dialed number is reported in monthly statement.

— Roam
Risk of incurring roaming call charges .. is real. CMLink hotline told me system will let call through .. 秋后算帐

Risk of busting 10GB quota (cf Starhub roaming)? No such risk as of Oct 2024. Once you use up 10GB, system executes an immediate cut-off:) Before you can surve further, you must buy more roaming data:) You can add roaming package from your online account. ALL services are charged to the account and billed at end of month.

Check roaming balance … see [[monitor]].

Over Bj15D, I used 0.37GB only.

Put in the cmlink SIM only once a day to check gmail.

hotline while roaming: free to call +65 887 000 86 from China, according to cssg 🙂

Both SSP and cssg can enable/disable roaming, immediately. Confirmed with cssg@cmlink.com 🙂