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Originally Posted by gmmour
Actually, until a few months ago, San Marino didn't have its own GSM network and the italian networks provided service and coverage for the sammarinese!
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Not true. Tim gives its infrastructure - thanks to an agreement with the Republic - to TMS (
www.tms.sm) and you found until a few months ago only Tim network (Code 222-01). Well, surely around San Marino you found Wind and Vodafone too, but their coverage in RSM is coming from... Italy. In fact in the capital you have a lot of difficulties to find the Voda or Wind network because the only BTSs in RSM are powered by Tim/Tms (check the broadcast, channel 050)
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It's just that a new network is opening, I don't think (although I don't know what the San Marino government has decided by giving a license to a local GSM network) that the italian networks will stop having coverage and antennas in San Marino nor that they will stop selling their products in San Marino!
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No one said that they will stop that... simply Vodafone and Wind have a so low coverage there that probably they will roam to SMT all the time that a their sim card stay 'abroad'. I repeat: Wind and Vodafone don't have a coverage oriented to RSM while SMT has already a great coverage that can just arrive to Rimini Sud (the exit of the highway to reach Rimini Beach and the Republic)! And Tim/TMS won't stop to stay there, maybe they will be the 1st operatore of RSM for a long time... but for a RSM resident now the choice will be better.
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In any case if they do stop selling products, a resident of San Marino can walk to Italy and buy his cellphone connection from there, but not his cellphone because the devices themselves are cheaper in tax-free San Marino!
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It's not so smart to buy a Voda or Wind simcard for a RSM resident. If they use TMS (or SMT) they don't pay any taxes, using Voda and Wind they have to pay italian taxes (without any refundation!) and... a local crappy coverage
It's not so easy
Italian networks in San Marino are logically