Prepaid in Sardinia and Southern Italy

[Grampa]

Originally Posted by Effendi

3G in rural Sardinia will be quite hard to be found... Probably TIM has more coverage (both 2G and 3G). Don't go with 3, that's sure. I'd choose TIM or Wind. They both have EDGE (TIM everywhere, Wind sometimes), while Vodafone has not.
If you don't find a shop at Cagliari airport you can find plenty of them in the town.

Thanks for the information.

I notice that in your sticky thread above, you list several time-billed TIM data offerings, but no offerings based on the volume of data. In your guide, PrePaidGSM: Prepaid Data in Italy, you list the volume-billed offerings Web 1 GIGA and Web 5 GIGA from CoopVoce (TIM). Is CoopVoce a virtual provider or is it part of TIM? Would these volume-billed plans be available in any TIM shop?

Also, we will be using a couple of (AT&T locked) iPhones and an iPad on a MiFi modem/router. I assume I would not be able to take advantage of any of the iPhone-specific plans, correct? The time-billed plans mostly have 15 minute billing increments. This would not be good for an iPhone, which accesses the internet in short, but frequent, bursts. Am I right, therefore, in looking primarily for volume-billed plans?

Finally, you probably know this, but your sticky thread above contains several typos: right under the headings, you have the note, "(they are not data plans; all options can be added to any 3 prepaid plan)" even for plans from providers other than 3.