Originally Posted by
elty
After the Italy trip I will be in Netherlands and Germany for a week. I know I can also buy a local SIM card there, but this would be a hassle (I don't know German/Dutch, so I would rather not going through the process if I can).
Anyways, I am browsing TIM website (through Google translate) and saw they have this:
http://www.tim.it/estero/tim-in-viaggio-pass
It claims I can have 500MB of data for 10 euro a week, and works in 40 European countries (Germany and Netherlands included). So my question is....
1) Does that mean I can buy the TIM SIM card, deposit €25, (€15 for the monthly plan, then €10 for the travel pack)?
2) Where can I buy this at MXP or Milano Centrale?
3) How do you activate the travel pack? Do you need to login to the website (i.e. navigate through a Italian website) or does the store do it for you?
I just purchased the TIM Viaggio pass online with credit already on my existing TIM sim. The 119 portal allowed me to do so and requires a TIM online account.
A TIM shop offered to activate the roaming pass if I wanted to pay the initial charge in-store. My preference was to use existing top-up credit so I chose to do it online.
Do check with the shop to see if they have any better domestic deals. The TIM shop I went about 10 days ago in order to top up offered me a deal which wasn't listed online, I think ~19 EUR for some bucket of talk, text, and unlimited data for a month. Had to stop in to a place which offered top up direct to the number instead of top up pin since my sim was inactive for 12 months.