I could honestly see myself getting that number as a secondary permanant 2FA & roaming number, quite cheaper than the alternatives for european roaming.
For internet roaming (and even for internet in Switzerland) I use MTX Connect | mobile broadband for travelers worldwide. It’s payg, and 1 MB cost EUR 0.012 . Roaming doesn’t only work in EU but many other countries for this price. If you need more data you can also buy a package. Since I’m not a heavy internet user this payg-setup is the best for me. Unfortunately a phone number is not included, but I don’t need this since I use my regular Swiss prepaid number in a dual SIM phone. If somebody is interested then PM, I have referral codes (if this is allowed here).
Are you really using it or just trying to send referrals?
1MB = 0.012 EUR → 1GB ~ 12 EUR. Not that cheap.
Roaming is 4GB only per month within EU, CH and GB, correct? I guess, that’s OK for weekend trips once every few weeks - I / my family use ~10GB per week while traveling 
And: you need a physical address in IT (to have them ship the SIM to)? And how to manage the video ID-call? 
And one have to study the ToS very strictly, usually, there are some kind of “hidden fair use policies”, e.g.: Max. duration of using abroad (in days / GB) either absolute or in relation to the use in the home country etc…
I was quite pleased with voxi (https://www.voxi.co.uk/) but with brexit (and lots of ppl. “misusing” it), they started to implement stricter rules of using their services abroad (e.g. max. 20GB, activation in UK only, …). I pay 15£ for 20GB for 30 days (activation/termination every 30 days)
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With yallo swype international for 4.50.- per day you have unlimited calls, sms and 10gb internet per day (afterwards throttled bandwidth) with coverage in 25 countries. You even get the sim or esim for free without activation fees.
… or even cheaper (data only and on a month basis) on the Sunrise roaming net: Sunrise “Travel data unlimited Europe option” (49.90 per month) in combination with a Sunrise Prepay SIM (0.- per month). You get 60GB with unlimited throttled bandwidth afterwards…
@ma0 Yes, I use it all the time.
I wrote ‘I’m not a heavy internet user’, that means I use about 50-200 MB per month domestic and abroad (yes, user like this exist!), but travel often, also to non-EU countries where I use it. So, unless you show me a cheaper option, I will stick to it 
Why does it say 39.90 on their website but 49.90 in the (on that very URL) linked PDF factsheet?
Cool, I wonder how you do that. I have a teletext.ch app that takes megabytes per month…that is the most facepalm app I’ve ever heard…
What about background data? Google Play should take a lot as well…
Yea, the Sunrise page is a mess!
They offer the same product (identical names) for different prices: One for subscription (39.90) and one for prepay (49.90) but they link from both pages to the very same “fact sheet” (the one for prepay, with obviously the wrong price for the subscription).
This was confirmed by customer support (“it’s not an error, but maybe a little confusing for the customer” - HAHA!)
- Subscription page: Sunrise travel data
- Prepay site: Sunrise travel data
… see the differences in the URL… and to make things even more confusing, you find his page (Travel data unlimited Europe) where they promote the option for prepay for 39.90 (but not on the “fact sheet”) 
Yes i’m not really suprised by your experience to be honest. I also had some issues that my subscriptions didn’t automatically renew and so on. I only use it as an esim and only for roaming abroad in addition to my main simcard that I have with wingo so it is fine for me because in a worst case scenario I still have my main line.
I have recently switched to Yallo (not Swype) and observed one day that I stopped receiving SMSes… I called their support and the engineer has “reset” my SIM - immediately after that I got all missing SMSes. Strange…hope it won’t happen again ;).
BS. It‘s clearly an error on their part - at least if they charge you more than advertised.
I recently subscribed to a mobile internet subscription with another carrier. 24 months at half the monthly price, even with a subsidised device, as clearly advertised on their website at the time of order (though not anymore).
Received their first invoice yesterday, and it’s without the 50% rebate. Two prior calls to customer have confirmed that the rebate is not being applied.
Will be sending out a registered letter today - thankfully I have rather well documented my order and the offer on their website, especially since the rebate isn’t mentioned in the contract form (which explicitly gives the subscription price without rebate). May still become funny.
I am still wondering how many other customers fell for it…
@ma0 I only need the data for text and voice communication (Signal and VOIP-calls). All the other information you can get on a smartphone is not that important that I need to get it while being on the move. I can check this when being online at home or when having WIFI access, and I’m doing absolutely fine with that, actually I’m much less distracted 
About the data consumption: on my phone I can specifiy which apps are allowed to use mobile data and which ones not (and if the smartphone doesn’t have, at least for Android there exist special apps for that). So, there is no problem with the data consumption. Google Play uses nearly nothing, I update apps only via WIFI. Also VOIP doesn’t use much data at all. I nearly never use my prepaid phone card to phone since VOIP is much cheaper and the quality good enough (about EUR 0.005 on fix line, plus the data consumption which is really low).
Speaking about falling on traps, If you google Salt Fiber Free, you might find an alternative homepage from salt where they offer the setup free (instead of 99). Somewhere else instead they offer it with the remote free of charge. It’s not clear how both will ends since if you follow the next steps, both stuff aren’t advertised anymore. I might try to call to get the first one.
Any idea how to get that SIM? I was looking for something like that for my father who is often in Italy… But last time I tried it seemed like I needed an Italian address and italian credit card.
No idea. The italian Credit Card might be bought at Poste (postepay). The address maybe from friends there?
What about background data? Google Play should take a lot as well…
Regarding this last part, recent (probably 11+) android versions allow to disable per-app mobile data, which could be used to mitigate this issue. Hopefully with Android 12, they’ll allow for per-app data caps
Some info about the Wingo Fair Flat: The 2GB of data in Europe is only valid for the first 2 GB of the month. If you use 2 GB in Switzerland, you have none left for Europe.
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w.t.f.
is that kind of thing even legal?