I'm hoping someone here has recent experience and can tell me how things worked out.
We have international data and sms built into our plans and really, that's all we need. We know we're covered there.
We'll be travelling lesser-known and well-known sites in Italy and I'm concerned about connection quality and connection speeds. We did okay in the past, but always found ourselves doing anything meaningful when we got back to our room (WiFi).
I would expect LTE but prepare for 2G. I went through the Abruzzo area back in 2020 (pre covid) and I was getting LTE signal. If you are near the bigger towns/tourist areas you should be able to jump on the local networks.