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I purchased two of these cards for my wife and I to use during two weeks in Italy. The data plan begins once the cards are activated. I activated them at home in the USA a couple of days before I left simply to make sure they worked. They will give you a UK phone number with a country code of +44. Activation in our unlocked iPhones was very easy. I simply removed our AT&T SIM card and inserted the new card. The carrier in Europe was "WIND." We had 12G of data each and did not come close to using all of it over the course of two weeks. Just remember to give your new UK phone number to those people who really need to reach you if needed. PROS: Activation was easy. I did not need to register the SIM with the new carrier. Worked very well in Venice, Florence, Tuscany, and Rome (4G all of the time). Coverage was spotty in Positano (Amalfi Coast; 3G or Extended most of the time). PRO TIP - The card is a UK phone number with a +44 country code. Italy is a +39 country code. Any number you text/dial in Italy (restaurant, tour company etc) must be done with the country code first. PRO TIP - The USA is a +1 country code. Any phone number you text/dial in the USA must have the +1 first. For years, I have not entered contacts into my phone with the +1 first. If I sent a friend a text back in the States, I had to remember to go into my contacts first and add the +1 in front of their number prior to sending the text. If you get a send text failure, check this first. CONS: You cannot stream with this card. I was on vacation so I was not trying to stream Netflix. However, if that is something you are going to do, you can't do it with this card. In addition, it can't be used as a hotspot. I was not trying to do either of these so it wasn't a real problem. The only real con that I had was that in Positano, Amalfi Coast, Italy, the coverage was 3G or worse. A few times it switched from WIND 3G to Extended (Roaming). When it does this, texting became a problem. Google Maps (for walking directions) still worked but it was slowed down when it switched to Extended. Random Tip - I purchased unlocked (not tied to a specific carrier) iPhones direct from Apple. This made this card very easy to use. Basically change the SIM card and it worked great. I THINK you can request your carrier to unlock your phone temporarily but I'm not 100% sure. It would be worth finding out. Knowing what I know now, I will never intentionally purchase a locked phone again. Another random tip - In the USA, I find the WAZE app works better than any other navigation app. I like WAZE much better than Google maps. However, we did a TON of walking in Italy. Google maps with walking directions worked very well with this card (even in Positano). However, Google Maps did screw me over one day while driving. I opened my WAZE App to hopefully get me to where I was actually going and it worked like a charm. Thanks WAZE. I hope you found this review helpful. Normally, I don't take the time to write reviews on Amazon. However, when I was considering buying this card, the description said it worked in Italy but no one had written a review about it who had actually used it in Italy. Well, here is that review. I hope you have safe travels.