Theory:

- Yes, it is has Italian phonr #: +39-3........
- It already has quite some money on it (Euro 100 or more), so you may just paypal me whatever moeny you spend, and, should you not finish it up, ship the sim back to me. Or, finish the money in it and just keep it.
- I was going to pull out from vodafone website / my account, the plan I had associated with the sim to give you an idea of what calls would cost.

BUT

Practice:

- I've just been on vodafone.it and logged on, and it's not showing me any info. I'm going call them later at some point to find out where my money is gone.
- In the mean time, if time is a concern to you, you definitely can buy a SIM card in France and fees will not be overkill. But hopefully, I can help you with this if I can sort out what happened.

I think the problem may be related to the fact that I have not used this SIM for months, and they may have temporarily disabled it. If that's the case, I should only need a phone call to fix this. But who can tell. It's a phone operator, things can get overcomplicated.

I'll let you know.