Is it possible to purchase a sim at the Fiumicino Airport?

I seem to recall reading that you had to be a resident of Italy to
purchase one.

Thanks

"HT" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Is it possible to purchase a sim at the Fiumicino Airport?
>
> I seem to recall reading that you had to be a resident of Italy to
> purchase one.
>
> Thanks

Try ebay or get a Global sim card

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HT wrote:
> Is it possible to purchase a sim at the Fiumicino Airport?
>
> I seem to recall reading that you had to be a resident of Italy to
> purchase one.
>
> Thanks
What you need is a codice fiscale which can be obtianed through many
online sites. It gives a rendition of your name, birth place and date.
Buying before you go on ebay is one option, beware here of expiration
times for the cards as well as the amount of balances. Buying new
through online distributors may well be pricy.

Make credence recognised that on Wed, 18 Apr 2007 16:42:44 -0400,
Joseph Coulter <[email protected]> has scripted:

>HT wrote:
>> Is it possible to purchase a sim at the Fiumicino Airport?
>>
>> I seem to recall reading that you had to be a resident of Italy to
>> purchase one.
>>
>> Thanks
>What you need is a codice fiscale which can be obtianed through many
>online sites. It gives a rendition of your name, birth place and date.
>Buying before you go on ebay is one option, beware here of expiration
>times for the cards as well as the amount of balances. Buying new
>through online distributors may well be pricy.

Here's one:
http://www.comuni.it/servizi/codfisc/

You'll have to play around with the entries a bit, but just use
whatever codice fiscale it produces. There's no system in place to
check that the details are actually correct, unless you want to do
something other that buy a phone that is!
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On Wed, 18 Apr 2007 16:42:44 -0400, Joseph Coulter
<[email protected]> wrote:

>HT wrote:
>> Is it possible to purchase a sim at the Fiumicino Airport?
>>
>> I seem to recall reading that you had to be a resident of Italy to
>> purchase one.
>>
>> Thanks
>What you need is a codice fiscale which can be obtianed through many
>online sites. It gives a rendition of your name, birth place and date.
>Buying before you go on ebay is one option, beware here of expiration
>times for the cards as well as the amount of balances. Buying new
>through online distributors may well be pricy.

Thansk for the replies. I had been looking on line and ebay and there
are certainly a variety of expensive choices. In Ireland a couple of
years ago I got a sim in a phone shop for 25 euro which included 20
euro of air time. They installed it and made a test call. I can't
remember the cost per minutes but it seems like we talked a fairly
long time, longer than what I see as the rates for the sims I've
looked at on line/ebay. I may pick one I can use in both Italy and
France and get one before I go, haven't decided yet.

I have the codice fiscale card printed out should I choose to go that
route. Thanks for the pointers.

If anyone knows if there is a phone shop in Fiumicino Airport please
let me know.

Thanks again

"Deeply Filled Mortician" <deepfreudmoors@eITmISaACTUALLYiREAL!l.nu> wrote
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> Here's one:
> http://www.comuni.it/servizi/codfisc/
>

Just idly clicking on your link, I noticed the poll question:

Esplode la rabbia nella chinatown milanese, che ne pensate?
* Hanno torto, le regole ci sono e vanno rispettate.
* Hanno ragione, non si può essere permissivi con gli italiani e rigidi con
gli stranieri.

I didn't see any coverage in the international press of the disturbances ...
not even the Hong Kong and China papers. By the way, I like Milan -- at
least as a business/convention visitor -- but I'd never eat Chinese there
again. Maybe the local Chinatown (which is Italian for Chinatown,
apparently) has expanded and improved its culinary skills since 1990.

Cheers,
George W Russell
Bangalore

On Wed, 18 Apr 2007 16:42:44 -0400, Joseph Coulter
<[email protected]> wrote:

>HT wrote:
>> Is it possible to purchase a sim at the Fiumicino Airport?
>>
>> I seem to recall reading that you had to be a resident of Italy to
>> purchase one.
>>
>> Thanks
>What you need is a codice fiscale which can be obtianed through many
>online sites.

I may be wrong, but I think the codice fiscale is no longer needed.

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"HT" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Is it possible to purchase a sim at the Fiumicino Airport?
>
> I seem to recall reading that you had to be a resident of Italy to
> purchase one.
>
> Thanks

I am sure you have be resident of Italy to purchase one.


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Make credence recognised that on Thu, 19 Apr 2007 10:46:30 +0530,
"grusl" <[email protected]> has scripted:

>
>"Deeply Filled Mortician" <deepfreudmoors@eITmISaACTUALLYiREAL!l.nu> wrote
>in message news:[email protected]...
>> Here's one:
>> http://www.comuni.it/servizi/codfisc/
>>
>
>Just idly clicking on your link, I noticed the poll question:
>
>Esplode la rabbia nella chinatown milanese, che ne pensate?
>* Hanno torto, le regole ci sono e vanno rispettate.
>* Hanno ragione, non si può essere permissivi con gli italiani e rigidi con
>gli stranieri.
>
>I didn't see any coverage in the international press of the disturbances ...
>not even the Hong Kong and China papers. By the way, I like Milan -- at
>least as a business/convention visitor -- but I'd never eat Chinese there
>again. Maybe the local Chinatown (which is Italian for Chinatown,
>apparently) has expanded and improved its culinary skills since 1990.

We heard about it, but I have no idea just what the cause of the
problem was.

Indeed, Italian Chinese is never particularly good IME.
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"Deeply Filled Mortician" <deepfreudmoors@eITmISaACTUALLYiREAL!l.nu> wrote
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> Make credence recognised that on Thu, 19 Apr 2007 10:46:30 +0530,
> "grusl" <[email protected]> has scripted:
>>
>>I didn't see any coverage in the international press of the disturbances
>>...
>>not even the Hong Kong and China papers. By the way, I like Milan -- at
>>least as a business/convention visitor -- but I'd never eat Chinese there
>>again. Maybe the local Chinatown (which is Italian for Chinatown,
>>apparently) has expanded and improved its culinary skills since 1990.
>
> We heard about it, but I have no idea just what the cause of the
> problem was.
>
> Indeed, Italian Chinese is never particularly good IME.

It appears to be a dispute over banning the use of hand carts. The Chinese
press did indeed cover it:
http://www.shanghaidaily.com/sp/arti...cle_313110.htm

Cheers,
George W Russell
Bangalore

On Thu, 19 Apr 2007, grusl wrote:

> It appears to be a dispute over banning the use of hand carts. The
> Chinese press did indeed cover it:

OK, things are like this :

- there is a chinese community in Milan since at least the '30s. It was
originally small and very well integrated (many of them spoke even
milanese, not just italian), they mainly ran crafts shops, specially
leather goods. It was located mainly in via Canonica and marginally
in via Paolo Sarpi (perpendicular to it). These roads are located in
an old "borough" (i.e. it was outside of the city walls, but in an
area mostly already built before 1800 ... so the roads are quite
narrow.

Paolo Sarpi was a "popular" area, with old "railing houses" ("case
di ringhiera", maybe DFM can explain what they are), inhabited by
italian craftsman (my father used to have his tailor there), and
lot of small shops.

- Recently there has a been a new burst of immigration from China.
According to the old milano-chinese, these people all come from
the same country area, and speak only dialect, and are not willing
to integrate ("they won't learn Italian nor Mandarin, they
won't integrate in Milan nor in Peking")

- these people do not run only retail shops but also larger depots
selling to retailers. They have bought most of the shops in the
area, paying high prices in cash.

- the roads are narrow and not suited for loading/unloading of
large quantity of goods. The chinese shopkeepers do not respect
the hours for loading/unloading, and make large use of these
hand carts.

Municipal authorities are thinking to declare the area a "limited
traffic zone"

- on the day of the troubles, a "vigilessa" (municipal policewoman)
fined a chinese lady for some traffic issue. The lady was carried
to the "police" station.

- a few hours later the chinese lady with her child saw the policewoman
on the same road, dropped her child, and hit the policewoman. The
local police car was surrounded by 300 chinese people. So the
national police had to be called, with lots of troubles

- apparently there are TV cameras controlling the area, but they
were somehow sabotaged

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"Giovanni Drogo" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> OK, things are like this :

[snip very informative summary of Milan Chinatown unrest]
>
Thanks very much for that, Giovanni.

Just out of curiosity, do you happen to know what areas of China are the
"old" and "new" immigrants mainly from?

Cheers,
George W Russell
Bangalore

On Thu, 19 Apr 2007, grusl wrote:

> Just out of curiosity, do you happen to know what areas of China are the
> "old" and "new" immigrants mainly from?

No idea if the old ones came from a single area or from all over the
country.

For the new ones I read the name of the region in a newspaper article on
Corriere della Sera which interviewed one of the old ones, but the name
did not trigger my memory and I have forgotten it.

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Make credence recognised that on Thu, 19 Apr 2007 15:56:09 +0200,
Giovanni Drogo <[email protected]> has scripted:

> Paolo Sarpi was a "popular" area, with old "railing houses" ("case
> di ringhiera", maybe DFM can explain what they are), inhabited by
> italian craftsman (my father used to have his tailor there), and
> lot of small shops.

Damn, that's a task!

Case di righiera are a type of council housing that was popular in the
area at that time.

In Milan, I guess the modern equivalent is the shitty Quattro Oggiaro.
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On Apr 20, 2:37 am, Deeply Filled Mortician
<deepfreudmoors@eITmISaACTUALLYiREAL!l.nu> wrote:
> Make credence recognised that on Thu, 19 Apr 2007 15:56:09 +0200,
> Giovanni Drogo <[email protected]> has scripted:
>
> > Paolo Sarpi was a "popular" area, with old "railing houses" ("case
> > di ringhiera", maybe DFM can explain what they are), inhabited by
> > italian craftsman (my father used to have his tailor there), and
> > lot of small shops.
>
> Damn, that's a task!
>

Thanks. Searching Google Images for "casa di ringhiera" explains it
all. Godawful, they look. They seem to have them in Venice, too.

Cheers,
George W Russell
Bangalore