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snidely · 25-04-2013, 02:30

Just got back from 3 weeks in China. Piranha took a couple hours to register and worked fine for incoming. I was using the SIM in a dumb phone. I stupidly contacted CS when I couldn't make outgoing calls. Stupidly - on my part - because all I had to do is do a battery pull reboot - which I should have done before calling them. (I forgot that even dumb phones need re-booting to get them going at times.) Outgoing then worked quite well - just a few seconds to get the call back connection.
I didn't need to use voice , much, because there is a 15 hour time diff. and that I could make use of T-Mobile's (U.S.) "automatic" wifi calling feature from my 3 y.o. BBerry from most hotels. Calls back to U.S. are free and almost as good as being on a cell tower. (T-M's Androids also have wifi calling builtin, but I didn't find using wife's Android as seamless in making calls via wifi. ) With a Blackberry I could do unlimited email for 67¢/day while there (or anywhere in the world where BB servers work).

I will tell my solution for data in China in a separate post.

Bottom line - Piranha works fine in China. The couple of test calls/SMS here in the U.S. worked fine as well. Did not use SMS on Piranha in China.

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snidely (Offline) Senior Member Prepaid Expert Posts: 451 Join Date: 09 May 2005 Location: Berkeley, California and Miami Country:	25-04-2013, 02:30 Just got back from 3 weeks in China. Piranha took a couple hours to register and worked fine for incoming. I was using the SIM in a dumb phone. I stupidly contacted CS when I couldn't make outgoing calls. Stupidly - on my part - because all I had to do is do a battery pull reboot - which I should have done before calling them. (I forgot that even dumb phones need re-booting to get them going at times.) Outgoing then worked quite well - just a few seconds to get the call back connection. I didn't need to use voice , much, because there is a 15 hour time diff. and that I could make use of T-Mobile's (U.S.) "automatic" wifi calling feature from my 3 y.o. BBerry from most hotels. Calls back to U.S. are free and almost as good as being on a cell tower. (T-M's Androids also have wifi calling builtin, but I didn't find using wife's Android as seamless in making calls via wifi. ) With a Blackberry I could do unlimited email for 67¢/day while there (or anywhere in the world where BB servers work). I will tell my solution for data in China in a separate post. Bottom line - Piranha works fine in China. The couple of test calls/SMS here in the U.S. worked fine as well. Did not use SMS on Piranha in China. Make use of T-M's UMA/wifi free calling from any place in the world with access to wifi. I use an LG G6, wife an S7) A/o Oct 20, 2013 no need for intl prepaid as T-Mobile U.S. includes voice roaming at 20¢/min (in and out)., unlimited text (in and out), and unlimited data in 140+ countries. My Plan -[6 lines] U.S. T-Mobile unlimited minutes (incoming and outgoing), unlimited text, fast data on each line. that $145/mo. total! . (In U.S. no surcharge for calling a cell.) If a line exceeds 2G of data in a month, pay $10 more for that line. [That only happens a couple times/year.