Talk:Italy/@comment-28829906-20160828113946

Has anyone tried the Tiscali plans recently added to this page?

Looking through Tiscali's detailed conditions, if I've understood the Italian correctly, it appears some of the plans accummulate the monthly cost as a debt when  there is insufficient credit at renewal time:

Italian from http://casa.tiscali.it/doc/mobile/Tiscali_15.pdf, identical to that for http://casa.tiscali.it/doc/mobile/Piano_tariffario_Smart_1GIGA.pdf:

Informazioni contrattuali ''L’offerta sarà attivata entro 2 giorni lavorativi dalla conferma di portabilità avvenuta o, in caso di nuova SIM, dal completamento della documentazione e ricezione della SIM. L’avvenuta attivazione sarà comunicata tramite SMS. Allo scadere del periodo indicato, e in presenza di credito sufficiente, l’offerta sarà rinnovata automaticamente. In caso di credito insufficiente l’offerta sarà rinnovata in stato “sospeso” per il periodo successivo e sarà addebitato l’intero costo. Per usufruire del traffico incluso sarà necessario effettuare una ricarica di importo almeno sufficiente alla copertura del debito residuo. In assenza di ricarica entro il successivo rinnovo l’offerta sarà disattivata''

The last three sentences are confusing but heavily imply that allowing the credit to fall below the renewal amount (which makes no sense as it is zero for Tiscali 15) will cause the "full cost" (whatever that is) to be debited. But the last sentence states failure to top up before the next renewal date will cause offer to be disactivated. It kind of makes sense for the 1 GIGA offer but it's highly confusing.

This is different from what a TIM vendor told me about "TIM International 1000" which costs 10 Euros per month unless there is less than 10 Euros credit, in which case the normal "base" per minute call costs will apply. He told me one can allow 10 Euros credit one month to be used, not use it for the next three months, and then top up with 10 Euros to allow the offer to re-activate (with no additional fee) for that (fifth) month only.