Split - data SIM in Poland

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Originally Posted by Asick

Oh, I hope some dealers will sell it in Krakow too. I see there are only 2 "Salony firmowe", so if this is too far from my hotel it would be impossible to get such the SIM so I'd buy Tak Tak instead. Anyway, this is similar to what we have here (5-10 "operators' offices" here and lots of dealer shops), but dealers sell anything an operator can offer.

I'm almost sure that you won't have to go necessarily to "Salon firmowy" . Just print the list of points of sales and when you arrive just select the closest location. BTW, this list is not very up to date. E.g. about 3 weeks ago I saw a lot of iPlus SIMs in Media Markt in Lublin, but Media Markts are not listed on http://www.iplus.pl/punktysprzedazy.html.

Originally Posted by Asick

No, you didn't get what I meant. Look, more subscribers use GPRS at the same time less free channels are remaining, so it produces some delays and might even collapse during peak hours. So, I was asking if the Plus network was built and organized well enough to support that extra GPRS usage or not. Here, for example, we had 10$/month unlimited traffic offer from Beeline 2 years ago, and by the end of this offer their GPRS almost got dead.

OK, you mean exceeding the network capacity. It shouldn't happen in any network because currently there are no really unlimited data/voice offers here. There are "unlimited" data plans in postpaid tariffs but they have built-in "fuses" - after exceeding 100 MB, 500 MB, 1 GB or so within a month the transfers falls to "impressive" 8kb/sec. Of course, it doesn't apply to New Year's night when mobile networks are overloaded in all types of services: voice, data and even SMS.
BTW, there's another easy alternative for internet access in Poland - old good dialup. It requires just a modem and a landline. You set username and password to ppp and dial 0202122 and you're connected to the internet - the access fee is included in the connection fee. The price of the service depends on the landline tariff plan - usually it's about 0.36 PLN/3 min peak hours 8-22 and 0.36 PLN/6 min off-peak 22-8. Of course, hotel surcharges will make those rates higher but by no more than 100%. From the hotel you should dial 0,0202122 (where the "leading 0" is the "exit code" to city lines).
The connection speed may be up to 57.6 kb/s (V.90 standard).