Pre-paid SIM card for Poland

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Originally Posted by Motel75

Several offers would meet your needs. If you want a lot more data than that, T-Mobile has a card for 5 zloty (=1.20 EUR) with 1 GB to start off, and 30 zl for 6 GB. I THINK they allow VOIP, but don't quote me. (Sorry, bit of a hurry here.)
http://www.t-mobile.pl/pl/oferta_spe...ernet-na-karte

Warning to others to be careful when buying this card or more to the point the similar looking 500MB for 5zł card that's also on the linked page.

The phone store I was at on Wednesday had only the 500MB for 5zł card. The card is all in Polish so it's hardly obvious to non Polish speakers that this is a very restrictive offer compared to the recommended 1GB./10zł card. According to Google Translate: "Pay only 2 zł per package of 250 MB each day." Also a day is a calendar day so if you activate at 23:00 you really only have one hour for the first "day."

So with this SIM even though I only did about 50MB total on Wednesday and Thursday, this morning my card was all used up and now useless. (Technically there is still 1 zł left but without a further cash infusion it's useless for data.) Worse today is a national holiday in Poland and all stores are closed so I had no Internet outside of WiFi range.

Now it's only 5zł so it's less about the loss of money and more about the inconvenience of learning. I'll get the correct 1GB for 10zł card tomorrow and all will be good again. But maybe this is warning will benefit other visitors to Poland.