New data offer by TIM

[Effendi]

At last also TIM has now a new data plan with "unlimited" surfing which is, in fact, called "Internet Senza Limiti".

Actually it has limits, of course:
- 10GB of surfing
- 64Kbps speed limited after you use your bundle
- € 24.00/month on prepaid, € 19.00/month on postpaid
- activation cost of € 5.00

You can get cheaper rates if you pay 1 year in advance, i.e. € 189,00 including 12 months of navigation and a 7.2Mbps usb bundle.
Another offer is when you buy an usb bundle (starting from € 29.00) you get 3 months at 10€/month.

It's not bad, but still COOP Voce's offer is cheaper (18€ for 5GB), but you pay the extra bundle which is also half the one offered by TIM.

Wind is still cheaper (20€ for 10GB, now in offer at 10€ for 1 year) but has worse 3G coverage.

[beeteater]

Just returned from 14 day stay in Italy. I have two Nokia e71 phones. I was able to purchase a Tim card for each for 10 euros (~$14). This allowed me 5 euros worth of calling - .04 euro per minute with .16 connect charge (.20 1st minute and .04 rest of minutes) and unlimited data. TIM was excellent in all parts of Italy I visited - Rome, Cassino Sant' Elia, Sorrento, Amalfi Coast, Isle of Capri, etc. Both my phones have Joku app which allowed them to act a WiFi for my Ipod Touch and friends laptop.

[goffredo]

Originally Posted by Effendi

... TIM has now a new data plan ... "Internet Senza Limiti" ...

- 10GB of surfing
- 64Kbps speed limited after you use your bundle
- € 24.00/month on prepaid, € 19.00/month on postpaid
- activation cost of € 5.00

Grazie, Effendi -- that's great news. I'm going to be in Piemonte for a few months, staying in Alba. My wife has a TIM card, so I wanted to get TIM as well so I can take advantage of the TIMx2 plan (€2/mo, then unlimited calls/texts to ONE other TIM number). But I'd also need an "unlimited" (I guess unlimited means 10GB) data plan, and their only "unlimited" data plan was the 100 hours a month plan, in 15-minute increments. That's a horrible way to go about it. I assume the new one, "Internet Senza Limiti", is just 10GB of bandwidth per month, and not based on time-slices.

Thanks for the help.
-Goffredo

[Effendi]

Yes, it's 10GB per month. If you use more you just go slowly but keep on using it without paying anything more.

[rmak]

How do i activate this new plan?
i text PRO INTERNETSENZALIMITI to 40916 ? Ok to use in a android smartphone?

Also for TIMxSMARTPHONE is it still unlimited data? Other places i read it says its 250mb now.

[Effendi]

Yes, it's PRO INTERNETSENZALIMITI to 40916.
I confirm that TIMxSMARTPHONE has a 250MB weekly bundle, I corrected my page, sorry for my mistake.

[tlinetrader]

In reading the posts here it sounds like when activating a data plan the confirmation can take several hours. Do smart phone users need to disable internet access while waiting to avoid inadvertently running up charges?

[rickh925]

On TIM, it took be about 30 minutes for the activation to happen with Internet Senza Limita.

[Effendi]

Yes, usually it's fast, but sometimes it can take some hours (or days...). Of course it's better to disable data usage before it's active.