Talk:Italy/@comment-27968765-20180324211103/@comment-24682153-20180325175504

Well. It's Italy. You can't activate TIM online. You have to go to a store. You can say: "Yes, I'll use it for 2 years". I have a TIM SIM. They can actually go into negative balance :-) I've never seen this before. But they can hardly charge me for this abroad. What will they do, if you stop topping up after 6 months? I mean it's different when you link it to a credit card or bank account. But I don't see any chance to get charged, if the balance is not on my prepaid account (credito residuo)..

This rule only makes sense, if you want to take your TIM number to a different operator before 2 years are over. Then, they will charge you additionally for porting out the number.