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Originally Posted by EChid
Ok, I have my unlocked ROKR E2 so I am planning on getting a prepaid SIM once I get to Italy, but I have a few questions:
1. I have heard that prepaid SIMs are now hard to buy, since a few recent terrorist activities have made use of them. Is this true? I am hoping that once I land the terminal will have plenty of options for me around the $20 Euro mark.
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no, it's not true, nothing at all changed. Buying a prepaid card in Italy is very easy, but you need a Codice Fiscale (more information
here)
A prepaid card usually costs 10€ including 5€ of credit.
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Originally Posted by EChid
2. I obviously want to stay in contact with people here, but I have a few options and I don't know which is better. First of all, I could buy a calling card and give it to the person I would most often call, so they could call my number at about $0.18 cents/min (thats Canada to Italy Mobile according to callingcards.com) and I will have free incoming (as far as I know European prepaid has free incoming no matter what), or I could pick up my own calling card for calling Canada from Italy (which is far cheaper). Which is better?
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if you want to call with the mobile it's probably cheaper to be called (free for you, quite cheap for the people calling you). If you want to call you can get the Dialoga International cards by Wind, and a Wind prepaid (0.25€cent/min to Canada)
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Originally Posted by EChid
3. Finally, would a calling card from a mobile phone work the same way as from a landline? In other words, if I was to use a calling card to call Canada what would be taken off my prepaid account balance? Would it be no amount, the local charge, international? Any help would be appreciated.
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it depends. If you call an 800.xxxxxx number you pay nothing from your prepaid account balance; if you call number starting with 0 you pay a local landline rate; if you call aumber starting with 1 you'll pay a lot; starting with 3 it's a local mobile.
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