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Originally Posted by jd0716
Oh, I was under the impression that all residents in Italy had a codice fiscale.
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Anyone can get one. Get your cousin to take you to the local tax office and you can have your own in 20 minutes. Or just use the generator online - it'll work fine.
But to go back to the OP, many/most services offering the chance to buy/rent a phone before you leave the US are a rip-off. A couple of years ago, a friend of mine came to Germany and rented a phone for "only" $69 a week (plus shipping and handling, and deposit for the phone). It contained a Vodafone CallYa prepaid card. At the time, you could buy a CallYa SIM plus phone at MediaMarkt for EUR 7.