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Originally Posted by Rallydrv
^ most people in Asia don't use calling via phone instead use whatapp or other data apps to make calls etc. So number is pretty much irrelevant.
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Not sure how this apply. There's no such thing as data only sim in China as they rely heavily on a cellphone number as a way to ID a person.
A person could have multiple numbers, but a sudden decrease in masses is definitely not common in China where a cell number is basically your ID number.
And most of their plans are basically prepaid. Meaning that you deposit x amount of money and they deduct depending on service. For example (not actual figures, but the system is like this)... say 30RMB/mth for 3GB of data, and call is billed by seconds at 0.1RMB/sec. One'd usually load $300RMB in their account and only pay attention to it again when they are low in fund.
So, I find it very unusual to hear a sudden decrease in numbers.