Getting T-mobile international data to work in Hong Kong (and maybe China/Japan)

The T-mobile ONE plan gives you unlimited data while roaming in 140+ countries — for about $70 / month. It’s maybe more expensive than buying SIM cards in each individual country, but by reducing the amount of SIM card buying and swapping, it’s a pretty good value.

That’s pretty sweet, except… when we had a layover in Tokyo’s Narita airport, my international SMS and Voice worked, but not my Data.

The same thing happened in Hong Kong — SMS and Voice worked, but not Data.

I need Data!!!!

I called T-mobile support, and the agent walked me through everything, confirming my APN settings, and then we tried connecting manually to each of the specific mobile network operators in Hong Kong.

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