Talk:Italy/@comment-24682153-20180529211953/@comment-24682153-20180612180106

Hi. This is a matter of definition. The offer of Iliad is in so far "prepaid", that it's reguarily paid at the beginning of each month, not after (postpaid). But it's still a rolling contract that has to be terminated. In Italy it's easier to do it than in France. But you have a 30-day notice time. This Iliad contract is linked to a credit card (what is called auto-pay in some countries). All additional fees whenever they occur will be charged on this card too.

In Italy most offers have three payment options:

real prepaid (addebiti di credito residuo) charged on the standing balance of the prepaid account

and pseudo or hybrid prepaid (addebiti di conto corrente, addebiti di carta di credito) charged on a bank account or credit card

We normally only mention the first option and don't mention plans only elegible for pseudo or hybrid prepaid as you need a local bank account or credit card. With Iliad this is different. In the end, they are all contracts, whether prepaid, real, pseudo, hybrid or not. The major difference is that you need to actively terminate any contract that is not real prepaid. That's why this section dwells so much on it, as with 99% of all offers in our Wiki you don't give damn when you leave.