BlackBerry Pearl 8220 launches on TIM in Italy

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andy310 @ Oct 28th 2008 2:41AM

well the line right under that... "tim card con 5 euro di traffico pregapato incluso"
means that the phone comes with a prepaid simcard with 5euro of traffic.

in italy there is no month to month contracts (there is but no one has them unless you got the phone in say 1998), you charge the phone a set amount every time you need to, and just pay a "flat rate" for calls.

no bullshit like roll over minutes or minutes that expire,
no crap like pay this much for 250 text messages a month, and this much more for unlimited

it's all on a flat rate and you can go a whole YEAR with 25$ on the phone if you use it that rarely.
of course they recently changed the contract terms, and all new contract need to add money every 6 months or the number gets recycled but if like me you have an account (i actually have a Wind and a Tim simcard that are still functioning) from say 2001, you got a pretty amazing deal...

wind used to offer calls at 5cent a minute, and textmessages at 1c each... that's actually the plan i still have... (wind libero i think it's called)

either way, just about any country is 100% more advanced in cellphone technology/ease of use then USA, where friggin verizon rips people off at 200$ a month for 2 lines!

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