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eSim in Italy with/phone #

I am wondering if I am looking for a unicorn.

I will be in Italy and would like to see if there is an eSim option that provides an Italian phone number. I found that Orange only provides a French number, and I haven't found any other services that can provide an Italian one. Ideas? I looked on TIM's website and other Italian service providers but didn't see anything obvious.

Posted by
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Would it be a stretch to assume that TIM would only be issuing Italian country code cellular numbers, I mean why would they issue numbers with other country codes - but I've been wrong before.

Posted by
6231 posts

As far as I know, Orange is the only one that issues eSIM data plans with phone numbers. Have you tried contacting Orange to ask them?

Posted by
2942 posts

It's much easier just to take your cell phone and pay $10/day, or at least that's the deal we got from Verizon. No issues, simple, and easy.

Posted by
103 posts

Thanks. Maybe I should have added details.

TIM has physical SIM cards, just not eSim.

Just adding the international plan to my Verizon plan won’t work because I need a local number. I have elderly family members who don’t use smart phones, so I want to make it easy for them to contact me while I’m there.

I checked with Orange and they only issue French phone numbers.

It sounds like the best course of action will be to bring my older iPhone and buy a SIM card. The TIM visitor card will work fine. I was just trying to avoid having two phones. But it will be fine. I’ll buy an eSim for the newer phone so I can use the data with it.

Posted by
1792 posts

Is your new phone dual SIM enabled? One physical and E SIM? Perhaps just move your Verizon service to E SIM and free up the physical slot for the Italian SIM. That way you only need one phone.

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103 posts

Rocket, does Verizon allow for eSims? If so that would fix quite a bit.

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103 posts

Oh, that is good to know! I appreciate you finding that link for me!