China Unicom Global expands CUniq MVNO to US

China Unicom Global has extended its MVNO venture into the US, which will allow customers to keep Hong Kong, mainland China and US mobile numbers on a single account.

The operator’s CUniq MVNO business has expanded to America after launching in Europe late last year. CUniq now allows data sharing across 47 countries and regions including Hong Kong, Europe and the US.

Customers will be able to use data, voice and SMS services in the 47 countries. The service is supported by a 24/7 customer support service in Chinese, English and Cantonese.

In the US, CUniq will have three plans, tailored to global businesspeople, American local users and tourists respectively. It will support electronic payment including WeChat Pay, Alipay, Visa, MasterCard and UnionPay.

China Unicom Global president Shusen Meng said the company plans to continue expanding its CUniq business into more countries and regions in the future.

CUniq is being developed in collaboration with multi-country cloud-based MVNE Plintron.