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Buy Iliad with PostePay or PayPal

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Is it possible to buy an Iliad sim with PayPal or with the PostePay card? These are undoubtedly two of the most used payment methods. Certainly very popular among the younger audience. Both PayPal and PostePay have almost zero costs and in fact, they reduce the normal to a minimum bureaucracy of accounts and credit cards making it really easy to manage an electronic payment tool that is still very efficient. But is it then possible to use PostePay and PayPal to buy a new Iliad sim?

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Yes Iliad using PayPal

Buy a new Iliad sim using PayPal. In this case, unfortunately, it is not possible. PayPal is super secure and is a very popular payment tool, as mentioned, also in our country. It is somehow the first historic online bank and is part, perhaps not everyone knows, of the boundless universe of activities of Ebay. As mentioned, it is in fact an internet bank because in Italy it operates in full compliance with a license from a credit institution. Nothing strange then behind PayPal, only that there is currently no agreement between this brand and the telephone company Iliad.

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The reasons are not known in detail. Let’s say that many companies in the past have stated that they have difficulty in making deals with PayPal due to the high fees required. Yes, because PayPal is free for users who pay but not for merchants who receive money. Iliad already makes very cheap rates, it follows that a commission that is too high would have a decisive impact on the operator’s earnings. The commissions on top-ups, on such convenient tariff profiles, are perhaps not financially sustainable. But these are only our assumptions. The fact is that it is not possible to use PayPal neither to top up nor to buy the sim.

One last curiosity about PayPal: did you know that in 2000 the online payment company was owned by the legendary Elon Musk? It was a period of strong expansion of the company that multiplied exponentially the number of transactions managed globally.

PostePay and PayPal logos

Yes Iliad using PostePay

And instead with PostePay? The situation changes with the prepaid card of PosteItaliane. In reality it is now no longer just a card but a whole range of different services and cards. The success of PosteItaliane’s financial services has been such that today PostePay is a separate company, part of the PosteItaliane Group. PostePay, as regards the cards, as mentioned, has different products and uses three different circuits. There are therefore PostePay Visa cards, other Mastercards, and still others Vista Electron.

PosteItaliane must be acknowledged for having given a fundamental boost to online purchases thanks to the introduction of PostePay cards. Some estimate that today about a third of internet purchases are made by means of a PostePay card.

With Iliad it is absolutely possible to use these cards, precisely because as mentioned they belong to the Visa, Visa Electron and Mastercard circuits. Therefore, on the Iliad website you will not find direct reference to the PostePay brand but the indication of the three international brands mentioned above, used by PostePay for the debit card and rechargeable card functions, is sufficient.

The PostePay card can also be used for Iliad refills, both online, in the SimBoxes and in the physical SisalPay and Lottomatica points of sale. Sisal and Lottomatica mostly involve tobacconists and newsstands where it is possible to buy top-ups from the telephone company. However, it is much more convenient, in our opinion, to recharge online through the website,

One last interesting curiosity regarding PostePay. As said at the beginning, PostePay today is a separate and independent company from PosteItaliane. It offers financial services but also telecommunications. In the reorganization of the group’s activities, the virtual operator PosteMobile has fallen under the new one PostePay spa. It follows that PostePay is therefore both a payment card with which it is possible to top up all telephone operators but at the same time it is itself a telephone company. With about half of the MVNO market, the PosteMobile brand is today the first virtual operator in our country for the absolute number of customers.

How to buy an Iliad sim online

Buying an Iliad sim online is really simple. The network is in fact, without a doubt, the main means of dissemination of this telephone company. You can buy an Iliad sim, as well as with the aforementioned PostePay, with any prepaid, debit or credit card. The online purchase process of a new Iliad sim is very quick and intuitive. In short, you certainly do not need to be an expert navigator to venture into the purchase process. It takes just a few minutes and, in addition to the payment card, your identity document. Of course, also with Iliad it is absolutely possible to carry out telephone number portability, technically also called “mobile number portability”.

The number portability request can be made both at the same time as the online purchase but also at a later time (perhaps if you want to test the Iliad sim for a few days and see how it goes). Once the portability request has been initiated, the two operators involved, therefore Iliad and the old operator, will take about 3 working days to process the file and actually pass the telephone number. We remind you in closing that portability is a consumer’s right, protected by Italian law. This means that the old telephone operator cannot prevent you from passing the number to Iliad, under any circumstances. The only precaution, during the registration phase, is to verify the correct insertion of the ICCID code, the unique code that identifies each sim present in Italy (a kind of plate on the mobile phone sim card). It is essential for the correct carrying out of telephone number portability.

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