data charges in italy

[donpedro]

Hi Effendi,

Thanks for the quick reply!
Here is some information I found on your site:

TIM: €0.20 fixed charge per session for TIM WAP Portal. €0.006/KB for Internet/HTTP – 1KB minimum.
Wind: €0.30 fixed charge per session for Wind WAP Portal. €0.003/KB for Internet/HTTP – no minimum.
3: € 0.60 connection fee, then €0.004/KB
Vodafone GPRS: € 0.30/5 min (plus € 0.50 set-up fee)
Vodafone UMTS: € 0.60/5 min (plus € 0.50 set-up fee)

So if I understand you correctly, the minimum charges for TIM and Wind are irrelevant in our case because they only apply to WAP traffic and not Internet/HTTP?

Re 3, do you know if there is any place on their site where the 12KB trigger is confirmed in writing? I found the €0.60 minimum charge in connection to use of what they call “Fast Mobile Modem” (using babelfish for translation to English…). And there was a mention of a product called Naviga3 that costs $9 per month and had a €0.15 minimum charge. One footnote I found several places mentioned that a session is considered expired after 30 minutes of inactivity. But I couldn’t find anything about the 12KB of usage for a new session to be charged.

Vodafone had a page that explains data pricing at http://www.190.it/190/trilogy/jsp/ch...y_skip_md=true. From what I can tell there is a minimum charge of €0.29 per session for Internet/HTTP traffic outside of Vodafone Live (and then €1 per 15 minutes usage).

Thanks again for your help. I have worked in the mobile industry for a long time and this Italian data plan structure is still one of the more confusing issues I’ve come across…

-don