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MATHA531 · 27-07-2007, 18:19

A couple of years ago, I bought a TIM card on ebay for next to nothing and it worked fine the first time I visited Italy..I even figured out, no thanks to TIM, how to set the voice menus to English.

But then the same thing suddenly happened. Apparently the Italian government has cracked down supposedly in the name of fighting terrorism on the proliferation of unregistered PAYG sim cards. I think what you have to do is go to a TIM store with your passport and I think it is called a coda fisicale and register the card.

This is an ongoing problem for people who throw their monehy away and buy sim cards from telestial...their prices are absurdly high as it is...the same card you can get for €10 they charge $49 and then to book charge you postage and handling and more and more people are discovering the cards are not valid without registration so where is the saving in convenience? Somebody on either this forum or another forum reported a similar problem with a sim card they bought for Norway.

Guys....do not use telestial. If you're buying a local sim, wait till you arrive to make sure the card is properly registered if it is required (sometimes like the UK (except for Orange) no registration is required but in other cases it is).

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MATHA531 (Offline) Senior Member Prepaid Specialist Posts: 869 Join Date: 15 Oct 2004 Country:	27-07-2007, 18:19 A couple of years ago, I bought a TIM card on ebay for next to nothing and it worked fine the first time I visited Italy..I even figured out, no thanks to TIM, how to set the voice menus to English. But then the same thing suddenly happened. Apparently the Italian government has cracked down supposedly in the name of fighting terrorism on the proliferation of unregistered PAYG sim cards. I think what you have to do is go to a TIM store with your passport and I think it is called a coda fisicale and register the card. This is an ongoing problem for people who throw their monehy away and buy sim cards from telestial...their prices are absurdly high as it is...the same card you can get for €10 they charge $49 and then to book charge you postage and handling and more and more people are discovering the cards are not valid without registration so where is the saving in convenience? Somebody on either this forum or another forum reported a similar problem with a sim card they bought for Norway. Guys....do not use telestial. If you're buying a local sim, wait till you arrive to make sure the card is properly registered if it is required (sometimes like the UK (except for Orange) no registration is required but in other cases it is).