I put it in..its not preactivated, but i'll take care of that when i get ot italy. i did go ahead and get all the TIM numbers off the sim and onto my phone......and I added my important numbers to the phone and made sure both phone and sim have the numbers. I am new to the whole gsm thing, but its pretty neat. thanks again. i dunno which part of the airport I will be in when I stop in Roma. hopefully i will be near the TIM area. i will have a little less than two hours of layover time which is enough to find the place, get lost and then get back to my plane to Catania....lol