Talk:Italy/@comment-87.10.251.52-20180628180510

Hi, I've got a question I was hoping one of you might be able to help me with. Or if not, at least this might prove useful for somebody else planning a trip.

I got to Italy yesterday and bought 5 Tim "Tourist Plans" for my family (15GB and 200 minutes). We all activated our SIMS and we are good to go.

But I've just noticed that none of my family members with iPhones (4 of them) can use iMessage, even over Wifi. It seems like it's stuck on "activation" stage which (from what I've read) is failing due to lack of ability to recieve SMS? I guess it never occured to me that the tourist plan didn't allow any SMS. I wasn't really focused on it as we wouldn't be doing any texting from these italian numbers that nobody knows.

So just putting this out there in case someone has a suggestion for how to fix (we're here for 2 more weeks) or if not, at least give people a heads up that without the ability to recieve SMS, you can't even activate iMessage in order to then use iMessage over Wifi or data).

Shouldn't i be able to send/receieve SMS from these SIMS even if I have to pay per text? If the reason I can't is because there's no credit left on my account, do you think registering the number and topping it off would be possible despite it being a Tourist plan?