(Rat August sixth days), September 18, 1996, the first cross-border mobile communication network with automatic roaming in Singapore opened.

1996 9 18, China Telecom and Singapore Telecom GSM mobile phone international automatic roaming agreements signed in Beijing, the opening ceremony was also held at the same time. China's mobile phone roaming taken the country for the first time, it indicates that China Mobile Communications has been regional automatic roaming forward to the international roaming.
recent years, China's rapid development of mobile communications, network construction has been extraordinary speed development. January to August 1996, the new mobile phone users to 1.97 million, the total number of nearly 5.6 million. At present, 24 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions have GSM network roaming. By the end of 1996, the country has 30 provinces to establish GSM mobile phone network, and networked automatic roaming. (History. Com)