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Detail Specification
Following are some important notes on the use of the Shenzhouxing SIM Card, please read them carefully before using your Card. For more information, please contact your local mobile phone point of sale or customer service center.
1. To Activate the Shenzhouxing SIM Card
2. The PIN Number
3. The PUK Number
4. User Password
5. Recharging
6. To Make Phone Calls
7. To Receive Phone Calls
8. Billing
9. Period of Validity
10. Value Added Service
11. Card Re-issuance and Report of Loss
12. Roaming
13. Tariff Standard
14. Point of Attention
To Activate the Shenzhouxing SIM Card

Being an intelligent card, the Shenzhouxing SIM Card contains the information of your phone number as well as your call charges. To make or receive phone calls, you need, first of all, to insert the Card into your handset. Depending on the type of your handset, you may need insert the smaller card from the entire Shenzhouxing SIM Card into your handset. Enter your PIN number if requested (Please refer to the following sections for more details on this).

Your Shenzhouxing SIM Card is activated upon your first successful charge of the rechargeable card and you can start using your mobile phone. [top]

The PIN Number
When "entering PIN number" is indicated by your handset, you can enter your initial PIN number 1234 and modify it later on at any time to be a 4 digit number easy for you to remember. Please refer to your handset manual for the modification of the PIN number. [top]
The PUK Number

In your package of the Shenzhouxing SIM Card, you will find a card with the PUK number which is used to unlock the SIM Card that has been locked upon the entering of the incorrect PIN number for three times. A new PIN number needs to be entered after the SIM Card is unlocked.

Note: Your Shenzhouxing SIM Card is permanently locked if the PUK number is entered incorrectly 10 times. To prevent fraudulent use of your phone when it is lost, you need to keep the PUK number and the Shenzhouxing SIM Card in separate places. [top]

User Password
Also in the package of your SIM Card, your will find a card with the user password which represents the only ID evidence of your legal possession of the SIM Card. Please keep this password card safe and sound. In case your Shenzhouxing SIM Card is lost, you may use this password card for report of loss and re-applying for the SIM Card. [top]
Recharging

When your account balance is less than RMB 10 yuan, the system will alert you to recharge your Card when you make phone calls. Using the rechargeable card, you can recharge your Shenzhouxing SIM Card timely and conveniently. The rechargeable card is available at mobile phone Points of Sale, agents' offices and shopping centers (the rechargeable card you get from cities where you have roamed to can also be used to recharge your SIM Card).

The face values of the rechargeable cards are RMB 100, 300 and 500 yuan. Please scratch the covered area of the card and an 18-digit number will be revealed which is the code of your rechargeable card. Please recharge the card using the following steps:

* | Dial the recharge number of 13800138000 with the handset using your own Shenzhouxing SIM Card.
* | Select language: 1 for Mandarin and 2 for English.
* | Select services: 0 for operator assistance, 1 for recharging, 2 for balance inquiry an 3 for change user password.
* | Enter your code number.
* | Wait a moment, the system will announce your latest balance and the expire date.
* | End your recharge process.

Note:

* | Recharge can only be made by using the mobile phone with your own Shenzhouxing SIM Card.
* | Please do not use the rechargeable card with confirmed charge to do the recharging again.
* | In case the automatic recharge by phone fails, please contact our HPLMN's customer service center and we will recharge you SIM Card manually. [top]

To make phone calls

You may use special phone services of 120, 119, 110 and 122 as well as 13800138000 for card recharge whether your Shenzhouxing Card account is exhausted or not.

Note: (1) Only by using your own Shenzhouxing pre-paid SIM card can you dial free phone number 13800138000 with your mobile phone.
(2) Currently, your cannot use your Shenzhouxing SIM Card for 200, 300, 600, 800 Services as well as the information services of 160 and 168. Any changes to this will be subject to the notification to this effect. [top]

To Receive Phone Calls
For incoming calls, please receive them following the regular operation procedures of your handset. Your own phone number is contained in the package of the Shenzhouxing SIM Card. [top]
Billing
The system calculates the balance in your account while your conversation is going on. Once it is found that your balance is just sufficient for conversation of another 60 seconds ,an alerting tone will be generated by the system. And when your balance comes to zero, your conversation will be automatically terminated. Please note that incoming calls will also be charged to your account, and are reminded to recharge your SIM Card with the rechargeable card in a timely manner. For the moment, we do not provide the customers with the itemized phone bills since the customers can learn information about their phone charges with the Shenzhouxing SIM Card in the most timely and rapid fashion. [top]
Period of Validity

Your Shenzhouxing SIM Card becomes valid once you make your first rechargeable call, and the period of validity of this SIM Card will be accumulated each time your have a successful recharge. The new period of validity will be the remaining valid item of your card before it is recharged and the valid time added by the new recharge. However, the maximum accumulated period of validity shall not exceed 2 years. You can inquire the validity period of your SIM Card at any time via the free phone of 13800138000.

Following are the corresponding periods of validity of rechargeable cards with different face values:

Face value | RMB 100 yuan | RMB 300 yuan | RMB 500 yuan
Period of validity | 60 days | 180 days | 360 days

Note:

* | The validity period of the Shenzhouxing SIM Card terminates when your account is exhausted, even if this is before the end of the valid period.
* | The balance remaining in your account will be blocked when the valid period of the Shenzhouxing SIM Card is over and as such, no calls will be allowed to be made or receive.
* | Within 3 months from the end of the valid period of your Shenzhouxing SIM Card, we still reserve your phone number for you so that you can make recharges to your account. If, within this 3 month-period, your account is recharged, the blocked balance in it will be re-activated and added to the newly recharged amount. However, no recharges whatsoever to the account will be allowed if no recharges are made in the 3 month-period, and both the phone number and the blocked balance are regarded as given up. [top]

Value Added Service

Using the Shenzhouxing SIM Card, you will get the calling number display service free of charge. Calling number display means that when there is an incoming call, the caller's number is displayed automatically on your phone screen, which helps your in deciding whether to answer the call or not. Most of the fixed phones support this function.

Note:

* | It is not possible to display the caller's number of the international incoming call.
* | For the moment, other than the calling number display, the Shenzhouxing SIM Card does not support other value-added services. Any changes in this respect will be subject to the notification to this effect. [top]

Card Re-issuance and Report of Loss

In case your Shenzhouxing SIM Card is damaged, you can go to the local mobile phone point of sale to apply for a new one with the damaged card. You would need to show you ID password and pay SIM Card fee to get a new card. For details of the application procedure, please contact your local customer service center at 1860. If your Shenzhouxing SIM Card is lost, you need to go to the local customer service center to apply, with your ID password, for suspension of this SIM Card and re-issuance of the card if needed.

Note:

* | Please keep the purchase receipt, the PIN number, the PUK number and the ID password safe and sound after purchasing your Shenzhouxing SIM Card, for without the ID password, you will not be able to apply for the SIM Card suspension or re-issuance.
* | China Telecom Mobile shall not be held responsible for any call charge-related losses that the customer suffers due to the loss of the Shenzhouxing SIM Card. [top]

Roaming
The Shenzhouxing SIM Card at present allows roaming by customers among the 13 provinces and cities of Beijing. Shanghai, Guangdong, Tianjin, Liaoning, Shandong, Jiangxi, Zhejinag, Fujian, Jiangsu, Hubei, Sichuan and shanxi. Any changes to this shall be subject to the notification to this effect. [top]

Tariff Standard

(1) Non-roaming Rate | Tariff
Place local phone calls | RMB 0.60 yuan/minute
Place national phone calls | RMB 0.60 yuan/minute + 0.07 yuan/6 seconds
Place IDD phone calls (except HK & Macau) | RMB 0.60 yuan/minute + 0.80 yuan/6 seconds
Place IDD phone calls (HK & Macau) | RMB 0.60 yuan/minute + 0.20 yuan/6 seconds
Place IDD phone calls by IP | RMB 0.60 yuan/minute + IP Rate*

*IP Rate: |
China - HK, Macau | RMB 2.50 yuan/ minute
China - Other oversea nations | RMB 4.80 yuan/ minute

Receiving phone calls | RMB 0.60 yuan/minute

(2) Roaming Rate | Tariff
Place local phone calls | RMB 0.80 yuan/minute
Place national phone calls | RMB 0.80 yuan/minute + 0.07 yuan/6 seconds
Place IDD phone calls (except HK & Macau) | RMB 0.80 yuan/minute + 0.80 yuan/6 seconds
Place IDD phone calls (HK & Macau) | RMB 0.80 yuan/minute + 0.20 yuan/6 seconds
Place IDD phone calls by IP | RMB 0.80 yuan/minute + IP Rate*

*IP Rate: |
China - HK, Macau | RMB 2.50 yuan/ minute
China - Other oversea nations | RMB 4.80 yuan/ minute

Receiving phone calls | RMB 0.80 yuan/minute + 0.07 yuan/6 seconds

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Points for Attention

* | Both the Shenzhouxing SIM Card and the rechargeable card are packaged after tests based on the relevant international technical standards. Please check if the package of the cards is intact before you pay for them, and once the cards are sold, they will not be replaced or refunded.
* | Please keep your Shenzhouxing SIM Card in an appropriate place by avoiding great heat and humidity. Never bend and scratch the Card and do keep the golden contact points on it clear and clean. The customer shall be responsible for any losses he or she suffers as a result of improper use of the Card.
* | Please ask the dealer of the Shenzhouxing SIM Card for the instructions on the Card and read them carefully before purchasing your card. Once you buy the Card, you are regarded as agreeing to all the provisions in the instructions. [top]