4G's high cost has mainland buyers balking

The huge price difference in fourth-generation services between the mainland and Hong Kong has drawn suspicions about telecom operators, report Lin Jing in Hong Kong and Shen Jingting in Beijing

While the many tech-savvy young people in Hong Kong are rushing to embrace the faster and better mobile service offered by fourth-generation technology, their counterparts in the major cities of the Chinese mainland have been stunned by the high cost of entry into the new world of communication.

How costly is it? 4G services offered by China Mobile Ltd on the mainland are almost five times the equivalent package offered by the same company in Hong Kong.