Talk:Italy/@comment-141.23.201.226-20190417141339/@comment-24682153-20190417194432

No. Your question is very good as Italy does it differently to other countries. In Italy you have a mandatory payment period of one month, no matter how long this month is. So your plan does always start on the same calendar day of the month. It does not start from a different date, when you do a payement after a pause. Instead you are still stuck with the old renewal date. This can cause problems as for periodic use as you can't adapt validity periods to your payment circle.

If your prepaid account credit is below your monthly plan fee, most providers will not renew your plan. Some like TIM will renew and set your balance into negative (up to 10€ minus). But to use data you need to have a positive balance and actually need to buy out this debt.

When you leave it not renewing for some months, you'll risk losing the promotional plan altogether and will be stripped to the base plan. Therefore you should check your plan portfolio when starting up agian. You can also deactivate all plans and options at the end of your month usage for a pause. In this case nothing will be debited for 1 year or more, if there is no usage. The disadvantage are pretty high activation fees for some promotions.

Summing up: prices in Italy are great, but SIM cards are not so good for periodic use.