Originally Posted by
Perche
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The link you sent is going to be helpful for a lot of people. I'd like to reiterate that I'm not going on a two week vacation, 120 MB is nothing for GPS'ing to find your way, around, getting messages in real time. It's fine to tell the folks back home about how you vacation is going, but to have a functional phone in Italy to work, call and be called, wherever you are, having 100-120 megabytes is noting . One thousand MB is 1 GB. The average person can't get by here with 2 GB, much less 120 MB. 2 GB is the minimum to stay here, watching minutes closely. Seven GB's is actual average use. I have an overnight stay in Rome tomorrow, and will see if the Vodafone dealerships are more forthcoming.
+1 - I was in BCN for a few days. For that amount of time, 120MB is workable and easier than the overhead of a local SIM card. Went from their to Italy last month for two weeks. Lived off of AT&T to get from MXP to Barga (we landed @ 5PM so getting to a Vodafone store would have been a waste of time) but first thing I did the day after was go to a Vodafone shop to ricarica my SIM card & buy another for my wife's new (since last time we were in Italy) tablet.
PERCHE - I read your story of trying to get the promo a couple of posts ago. Typically Italian. I do find it is better in the bigger cities but it is hit or miss. Vodafone's web site has a site location page which allows you to find corporate vs. franchise stores - I try to avoid franchisees (I think your "bravo" ragazzo was a franchisee)