Coronavirus - 21 Million Cellphones Disappeared in China

Youtube Journalist Laowhy86 ^ | Mar 25, 2020 | laowhy86

[Caipirabob]

21 million cell phone subscriptions disappeared in China, suddenly. Why did this happen?

[Caipirabob]

Laowhy86 and Serpenteza create the content for the ADVChina channel and their own individual videos.

They are excellent sources for current events in china. They are familiar with the culture and have great insights on the how and why of things in this communist occupied nation.

[RayChuang88]

Except for one thing: many Chinese migrant worker carries cellphones with multiple numbers (that's why dual-SIM cellphones are popular in that country). 21 million numbers gone mean 21 million numbers deactivated because they were no being used by migrant workers.

[Major Matt Mason]

How many are burners used by people having affairs and such? Hard to be clandestine when you are locked in one place.

[smokingfrog]

I don’t think a burner phone would count as a subscription.
A lot of people might have a subscription that is paid for by their employer, but if they’re laid off there’s no reason for the company to keep paying for it.

[steve in DC]

Some folks ringing up a low “social credit” score?

[Caipirabob]

EXCELLENT commentary folks. I mean, very well reasoned responses. You should see some of the hysteria I see on other forums.

Cheers!

[Caipirabob]

EXCELLENT commentary folks. I mean, very well reasoned responses. You should see some of the hysteria I see on other forums.

Cheers!

[Cvengr]

So the Chinese found a cure for the Bat Virus!
A Shanghai Pharmaceutical Company has a cure which is partly Bear Bile.
Truth is stranger than fiction.

[TangoLimaSierra]

More on that subject

[Caipirabob]

Wow - Oh well. If anything else we can get more people directed to Laowhy86 and Serpenteza. They are awesome.

[SmokingJoe]

Why did this happen?

1. Because they lost their jobs from the economic fallout from coronairus? Ref, see US where job cliams jumped by 5 million over coronavirus lock-downs, and that is just for starters.

2. People with multiple cell phones just gave up one of their phones when they lost their jobs.

3. Companies sacking employees withdrew the work cell phones.

4. There are close to 800 million cell phone subscribers in China. 21 million is totally insignificant.

[George from New England]

5. They were buried with those phones.

[SmokingJoe]

LOL!
I wanna know where the bodies are buried. :)

[SmokingJoe]

Good point. I have a dual sim card cell phone, plus another single sim cell phone, making 3 numbers altogether, but just two physical phones.

[smokingfrog]

They’re for sale cheap on Taobao (淘宝网).

[Future Useless Eater]

21 million is only 1.5 percent of the population.

So many people there lost their income, it makes sense that perhaps 1.5% of them might need to cut back on their spending and do without one of their family’s phones for a while.

[minnesota_bound]

Those portable incinerators in China have been very busy.