TELEPHONE COMMUNICATION IN ITALY
Posted: Thu Dec 05, 2024 8:45 am
We are lucky to live in a time when you can travel without interrupting your work. Discuss business issues from the Colosseum, conduct interviews in a cozy cafe with a view of Raphael's frescoes, control work processes from the steps of the Spanish Steps. Promptly, effectively and with zest. But how much this promptness will cost is a completely different question. Roaming is usually an expensive pleasure, so it is worth thinking about optimizing this expense item in advance.
At the moment, there are three options for ensuring uninterrupted communication abroad.
Connect roaming on your Russian SIM card – that’s all! As long taiwan phone number library as there is money in the account, you are in touch and on your own number – it’s convenient and often very important. There is only one “but” – it’s expensive.
Buy a MCN Telecom SIM card for traveling with favorable intra-European rates, while remaining on your Russian number. That is, all incoming calls are free, and outgoing calls are at “home” rates. For example, 48 kopecks per minute to Moscow and 1.29 rubles to Russian mobile numbers. This became possible due to the fact that the SIM card has profiles of several European operators, between which you can switch via a mobile application. This option is ideal if you are not going to disappear from the radar of your colleagues during your vacation and only contact those you yourself want. For such cases, the following solution is for you.
Buy a local SIM card. Pros: you will always be in touch, and it will not cost you too much. Cons: changing the number. If it is not critical for you which number to use to conduct business, then this may be your option.
What you need to know and be mentally prepared for in this case:
The connection will not happen immediately. As a rule, it should take from 1 to 3 days. Do not ask why, the sellers themselves cannot explain this tradition. Therefore, it is worth taking a local SIM card if you are in Italy for at least 3 days. However, a pleasant bonus: if you are traveling around Europe, this SIM will work throughout the European Union without changing the tariff.
The connection process is complicated, so when you buy a SIM card, ask the seller to set everything up for you.
Connecting a SIM card costs from 5 to 10 euros. Yes, just the card itself and the fact of connecting is a one-time payment.
Buy only in official communication stores. Don't risk it and take a SIM card at the airport, no matter how logical and tempting it may seem.
To purchase a SIM card, you must provide a passport; a Russian passport will also work.
To optimize expenses, it is often more profitable to take a subscription service, even if you need it for a week. The package includes a sufficient number of gigabytes of Internet and often an unlimited number of calls to local numbers. For very budget calls to Russia, you can connect an additional service, but if you have mobile Internet, this service becomes irrelevant.
In case of subscription service, it is necessary to deactivate the SIM card so that the mobile operator does not continue to pedantically withdraw money for subscription service every month. Just do not link the payment to the card. It will deactivate itself in a couple of months if no payment is received.
The whole procedure: SIM card, connection, minimum amount of money – all this will cost from 30 euros, one-time payment.
So the algorithm is this: find a mobile phone store, give your passport, about 30 euros, wait 15 to 30 minutes, get a SIM card, wait a day or two and voila! You have an Italian number.
At the moment, there are three options for ensuring uninterrupted communication abroad.
Connect roaming on your Russian SIM card – that’s all! As long taiwan phone number library as there is money in the account, you are in touch and on your own number – it’s convenient and often very important. There is only one “but” – it’s expensive.
Buy a MCN Telecom SIM card for traveling with favorable intra-European rates, while remaining on your Russian number. That is, all incoming calls are free, and outgoing calls are at “home” rates. For example, 48 kopecks per minute to Moscow and 1.29 rubles to Russian mobile numbers. This became possible due to the fact that the SIM card has profiles of several European operators, between which you can switch via a mobile application. This option is ideal if you are not going to disappear from the radar of your colleagues during your vacation and only contact those you yourself want. For such cases, the following solution is for you.
Buy a local SIM card. Pros: you will always be in touch, and it will not cost you too much. Cons: changing the number. If it is not critical for you which number to use to conduct business, then this may be your option.
What you need to know and be mentally prepared for in this case:
The connection will not happen immediately. As a rule, it should take from 1 to 3 days. Do not ask why, the sellers themselves cannot explain this tradition. Therefore, it is worth taking a local SIM card if you are in Italy for at least 3 days. However, a pleasant bonus: if you are traveling around Europe, this SIM will work throughout the European Union without changing the tariff.
The connection process is complicated, so when you buy a SIM card, ask the seller to set everything up for you.
Connecting a SIM card costs from 5 to 10 euros. Yes, just the card itself and the fact of connecting is a one-time payment.
Buy only in official communication stores. Don't risk it and take a SIM card at the airport, no matter how logical and tempting it may seem.
To purchase a SIM card, you must provide a passport; a Russian passport will also work.
To optimize expenses, it is often more profitable to take a subscription service, even if you need it for a week. The package includes a sufficient number of gigabytes of Internet and often an unlimited number of calls to local numbers. For very budget calls to Russia, you can connect an additional service, but if you have mobile Internet, this service becomes irrelevant.
In case of subscription service, it is necessary to deactivate the SIM card so that the mobile operator does not continue to pedantically withdraw money for subscription service every month. Just do not link the payment to the card. It will deactivate itself in a couple of months if no payment is received.
The whole procedure: SIM card, connection, minimum amount of money – all this will cost from 30 euros, one-time payment.
So the algorithm is this: find a mobile phone store, give your passport, about 30 euros, wait 15 to 30 minutes, get a SIM card, wait a day or two and voila! You have an Italian number.