Which carriers stock microsims in Rome shops?

JPSmith · **Which carriers stock microsims in Rome shops? -** 09-05-2012, 15:39

My wife is landing in Rome next week to start an Italy trip. She wants prepaid data on her iPhone and doesn't want to deal with cutting down sims. Which carriers' shops in Rome are likely to have microsims available? I read on another thread that TIM has microsims, anybody know about WIND, 3, or Vodaphone?

Thanks.

DRNewcomb · 09-05-2012, 16:14

"3" appears to cater to iPhone customers iPhone 4 instructions

JPSmith · 09-05-2012, 17:41

Quote:

Originally Posted by DRNewcomb

"3" appears to cater to iPhone customers iPhone 4 instructions

Thanks. 3's data tariffs are very attractive, but since their data is UMTS-only do I understand correctly that their data coverage outside of cities will not be as good as Vodafone, TIM, etc.? She will be visiting some smaller towns and rural areas.

Effendi · 11-05-2012, 07:18

All 4 main operators have micro-sims, no problem. Of course it can happen a shop is out of stock, but basically they should have them. Bigger/central shops should have a bigger stock.

JPSmith · 11-05-2012, 14:29

Quote:

Originally Posted by Effendi

All 4 main operators have micro-sims, no problem. Of course it can happen a shop is out of stock, but basically they should have them. Bigger/central shops should have a bigger stock.

Thanks, this is good to know. Would you agree that if the goal is widest data coverage including smaller towns it is best to use TIM or Vodaphone instead of 3 or Wind?

JPSmith · 04-06-2012, 14:42

To follow up, we just returned from 3 weeks in Italy and had good luck with TIM service everywhere we went. We stopped in a TIM shop upon arrival in Rome, where friendly employees who spoke decent English had us up and running with prepaid sims on my wife's iPhone and my Windows phone within half an hour. A promotion currently running gives the 250mb/week data plan free of charge for 4 weeks, so we were able to use the initial credits on the sims entirely for voice and sms. The free data allotment was plenty for our needs.

	(#1)
JPSmith (Offline) Junior Member Amateur Member Posts: 15 Join Date: 05 Aug 2009 Country:	Which carriers stock microsims in Rome shops? - 09-05-2012, 15:39 My wife is landing in Rome next week to start an Italy trip. She wants prepaid data on her iPhone and doesn't want to deal with cutting down sims. Which carriers' shops in Rome are likely to have microsims available? I read on another thread that TIM has microsims, anybody know about WIND, 3, or Vodaphone? Thanks.

	(#2)
DRNewcomb (Offline) Senior Member Prepaid Professionist Posts: 1,465 Join Date: 27 Feb 2004 Location: Mississippi, USA Country:	09-05-2012, 16:14 "3" appears to cater to iPhone customers iPhone 4 instructions

	(#4)
Effendi (Offline) The great Dictator! Prepaid Prophet Posts: 2,487 Join Date: 13 Jan 2004 Location: Trieste/Trst Country:	11-05-2012, 07:18 All 4 main operators have micro-sims, no problem. Of course it can happen a shop is out of stock, but basically they should have them. Bigger/central shops should have a bigger stock. Working Prepaids: IT: Wind, Vodafone IT, UNO Mobile; SM: Prima; UK: 3, Virgin; INT: TravelSIM, Truphone. Deceased Prepaids: CZ: Oskar, Eurotel; SK: Orange; DE: E-Plus, Aldi, Simyo; GE: Geocell; AM: Armentel; PL: Heyah, Plus; LT: Tele2; LV: Amigo; EE: Elisa; UA: Kyivstar; NZ: Vodafone; INT: UM, UM+, ICQSim. GSM/3G Phones: Nokia Lumia 630 dual sim

	(#6)
JPSmith (Offline) Junior Member Amateur Member Posts: 15 Join Date: 05 Aug 2009 Country:	04-06-2012, 14:42 To follow up, we just returned from 3 weeks in Italy and had good luck with TIM service everywhere we went. We stopped in a TIM shop upon arrival in Rome, where friendly employees who spoke decent English had us up and running with prepaid sims on my wife's iPhone and my Windows phone within half an hour. A promotion currently running gives the 250mb/week data plan free of charge for 4 weeks, so we were able to use the initial credits on the sims entirely for voice and sms. The free data allotment was plenty for our needs.