Bad Cell Service? Here's How to Change Your Provider Without Changing Your Number

Over the past year, I’ve had numerous missed calls from colleagues – they said my phone would just ring through – and more recently a kuaidi guy who said he couldn’t get an answer, despite my phone being on. Colleagues said China Mobile has a better signal where I work, but I didn’t want to go through the hassle of applying for another mobile number. After some research, however, I found that it is possible to switch carriers, and did so over National Day recently.

Whether you’ve been a Beijinger for 10-plus years or less than a year, chances are that you can switch carriers. In fact, number portability and moving service providers is relatively new, with the Regulation on the Administration of Number Portability Service published in November 2019 and implemented in December 2019.

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