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Aug 27th, 2007 07:05 PM |
What is this Tim phone that I have?
OK, I'm electronically challenged. Several years ago we bought a mobile phone and minutes package in Italy on the spur of the moment when we were desperately trying to track lost luggage. It says "TIM" on the outside of the phone. After reading some of the forums here, I think that the little bitty black thing in the inside is a SIM card with a "TIM" logo. This SIM and TIM stuff is new to me. Not being able to read the instructions with the phone because they are in Italian, whenever we needed more minutes we scrounged around for a phone store where we could buy minutes. We would prevail on the salesperson to add them for us because we had no idea of what to do. This could be a real adventure because we stick to small towns and there are not many stores there. If memory serves me correctly, the cards in the tabacchi stores wouldn't work on our phone. Is this because of the brand of our SIM card or did we just not understand what to do? It would be much easier to have another way to add minutes without having to find a store that carries these cards. Also does anyone know the rate from Italy to the US for these cards and if incoming calls are charged. We just buy the cards, but really don't understand how much we are paying per minute. We're going back next month to Italy and would appreciate some light on this.
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