CMCC and Mobile Data in China

Always had trouble with mobile data connection in China. Bought a prepaid CMCC card. And the settings below, managed to get Gmail Mobile sites and some other wap sites. However note that during daytime, may not be able to connect for reasons unknown. Opera Mini works occasionally. Found the follow link very helpful and excerpt below- http://www.shanghaiexpat.com/index.php?name=MDForum&file=viewtopic&p=449343

Now with my Thinkpad X60s, Nokia N73, Dopod 838pro, I'm a very light but extremely effective road warrior. Hi-ho silver!!

Quote - "Hi All, I know there are posts here and there about MMS settings but having just gone through setting up my phone, I thought I'd post the official website for it so people can refer to it in one place if needed. All the linked sites are in chinese only but with Google or Altavista you can sort of make sense of it. WAP The WAP information page is : http://www.monternet.com/moneditor/cs/wap/wapguide/ The settings you need are: Wap Home : http://wap.monternet.com/ Gateway IP : 10.0.0.172 Port: 9201 if you have GPRS: GPRS APN : cmwap No Username/Password needed if not then the CSD number is: 17266 username: wap password: wap Type: Modem (or simulated) MMS MMS setup is found here: http://www.monternet.com/moneditor/cs/help/mms/ APN: cmwap Server Name: http://mmsc.monternet.com/ Gateway: 10.0.0.172 (some phones link this info together with the wap setup) SMTP/POP Mail The info can be found at http://mail.monternet.com/ http://mail.monternet.com/free/gb/Help_QA.htm#a15 First thing you've got to do is register on the mail site: http://mail.monternet.com/ Its all in chinese but I had GoogleTranslate in another window to translate the options Choose the first plan which is the free one (its the one that says 0RMB/Month (0元/月) The others may be better if you have larger email needs. Enter your mobile number and you'll get an SMS with a confirmation password. Enter the confirmation password Enter your password and a question/answer in case you loose your password. again it ask you for the plan... Once that's all set up you need to setup your PDA. The instructions are here. http://mail.monternet.com/free/gb/Help_QA.htm#a15 I assume you've setup your GPRS, Wap, MMS already so the relevant info for you is Outgoing SMTP Server: smtp.17288.com Port: 25 Incoming POP3; pop.17288.com Port: 110 Username: Your Mobile Number Password: Whatever you entered in registration After that you should be able to send/receive mail from your phone/PDA. The email address is YourNumber@17288.com eg 137xxxxxxx@17288.com"