Need the best Poland data sim card provider for use in personal unlocked wifi device (mifi).

I require the most widespread (for use in Warsaw, Lodz, Krakow, Bialystock, Lublin and all roads between these cities) data sim card provider - to place into a mifi device. Need 1 gig, minimum, for 1 week of consistent use. The sim card would be placed into an unlocked ZTE MF60 3G GSM Wireless Router Mobile Hotspot WiFi device. Advice please.

Probably best off with Play or Virgin Polska which I think also works in a dongle/laptop USB modem.
1GB valid for 14 days from first use 19zł (you can buy one at a Play kiosk in many shopping malls/centres)

play.pl/oferta/internet/internet-na-karte/

Or Virgin (buy a SIM for 5zł at a telephone vendor's kiosk or in many supermarkets, then top-up with 15zł or 20zł and enter a code to turn it into 1GB of internet use plus I think 100MB free. However, coverage is probably less comprehensive than Play. (Good customer services at Virgin, though.)

virginmobile.pl/chce_przejsc_do_virgin_mobile/oferta/pakiety_internet/

I tried T-Mobile and had a very poor experience, so can't recommend.

Don't get Play: their coverage outside major cities is rubbish (my Mrs is with them).
I'm not sure which network Virgin uses (they're a virtual network).

What do you mean by "one gig minimum"? Amount of data in total or connection speed?

Thanks for the replies. I need the mifi to connect to the internet wherever I am in Poland, on the road between the cities, in the cities, inside hotels. Use would be primarily for checking email and, particularly, for uploading photos of our trip to our website, which is why I asked about 1g or more. Not needing it for phone calls

Was in Poland this past summer for 12 days and, as a trial, rented a mifi device which worked great. The catch for using mifi is that when this great device connects to the data of Play, Virgin, Orange or another carrier, fair trade laws can "kick you off" of their network. This is what happened to me through the company from which I rented the mifi over the summer (Happened on the 8-9th day of usage)

The best scenario for me is to place a Polish data sim card into the unlocked mifi device and have that sim card search for the best, or nearest, carrier.

Play is OK - I used to use it for that. It can be a bit flaky if you're near a very busy main road during the Warsaw rush hour but otherwise OK for everything except streaming TV.

If you used an unlocked mifi device, which brand? Also, kindly share if PLAY works on the roads and highways between cities.

I used play on a dongle - no idea of the brand. It worked fine in all the places I needed to use it.

Merged: Data SIM required for use in unlocked HTC phone as WiFi hotspot

We'll be touring Poland for 2 weeks or so this summer and need an internet connection only. Not interested in phone calls.
My HTC works perfectly as a WiFi hotspot in other countries so we simply need a cheap SIM for email purposes only.
No heavy data streaming or large file downloads required.
Please give me some sensible and legible information as we're not particularly au fait with mobile phone technology.
We speak no Polish !!

Thanks to anybody with helpful information.

Merged: How to choose the best prepaid Sim mobile in Poland (Heyah, Play, Nju, Red Bull, Virgin Mobile?)

There are a looot of Prepaid sim cards that you can buy in Poland.

I learned the hard way though that some of them are very very nonprofitable,
while others are quite awesome.

for example, if you do not recharge every month your ORANGE or PLUS prepaid, they erase all your unused credit.

Let's say you bough 200 zl credit on your Orange or PLUS. All is lost / erased from your account, if you do not
use it all within 2 months . So Orange and Plus suck big time because of this. It is practically theft what they do.

Currently I would like to learn from your experiences, and discover what prepaid Sim I should get to use
for longterm, based that most important for me is that the credit and the validity never expires,
or it expires after years.

These are few of the prepaid simcards available in every shop almost:

Nju
Orange
Plus
Virgin Mobile
Red Bull Mobile
Play
Plush
Heyah

What are your experiences? What do you recommend?

Thank you for your insights

The prepaid sim card situation in Poland is changing from time to time. Currently I'm considering to move on to Virgin Mobile - for 19PLN you get 2 gigabytes of data (4G LTE), free text messages to all, free calls to Play and Virgin networks, and 100 minutes to landlines and other cellular providers.

I'm on Play now, but using the free mobile Aero internet, so 4G would be a plus and most of all no such short validity time - so no bother with buying 'doladowania'.

I'm still pulling off the transition because of the unused funds on my Play account..

I do not understand why it is such a chaos in polish mobile networks.

With some networks you will lose your mobile phone number if you do not constantly add money to your account at least ONCE EVERY MONTH. This is quite insane, if you ask anyone.

Also if you do not recharge EVERY MONTH, you also lose all the credit you had before, and your mobile number as well.

This is the case with Orange, Heyah, Plus and Plush.... :/

Not true.


No, you won't. You lose the ability to make calls and nothing more.

I would prefer to read opinions by others as well.

Delphiandomine is this forum daily troll, with over 12,000 posts already,

caught lying and spreading disinformation on weekly basis :(

And this is the case for almost all the offers of all the networks, apart for some special ones, marked as "rok ważności konta" - "a year of account validity", like this one:

play.pl/oferta/play-karta/play-na-karte/play-na-karte-rok-waznosci/

But there is nothing for free. Normally in Play you have free calls to the other people in Play, but not with this offer (unless you pay something for this possibility).

in Heyah and Plus after the credit validity of few days up to 2 months,
you have just 1 month in which you can receive phone calls, and then the phone number gets desactivated and is lost

so delphiandomine is disinformating from lack of knowledge

I also think it works so - the first month after the end of validity you can receive calls, then it gets blocked and quite quickly it gets reused in a new SIM card that someone can buy. I am not sure how it is with losing the money from your account, but I think you don't lose anything before this first month ends.

If you are really not going to make many calls and write many SMS'es, then the offers "rok ważności konta", especially the one from Play (it's cheapest, maybe Virgin is yet cheaper, I am not sure, but from the "real" networks and not MVNO's, Play is definitely cheapest), are good for you.

I had some very bad experiences so far with polish mobile prepaids, and hopefully I can learn from your experiences as well, to find a better mobile prepaid:

First I had Plus and Orange prepaids. On both, I had to either consume the whole credit in a matter of weeks, or the whole credit was stolen and erased if I didn't continue to topup every 2-4 weeks. It sucked

Then the worst experience ever: Heyah. They charge you for services that you never requested. They took 5.00 zl every month after they activated by themselves without my knowledge, a kitschy song that everyone heard when calling me

Adding the fact that each time you check your credit it costs 4 groszy and that the credit lasts 5-10 days, and you lose your phone number if you don't recharge for 1 month, Heyah T Mobile is a nightmare

What are your experiences?

Thank you for your thoughts

With Play "Rok Ważności Konta" everything is OK.

Rok ważności konta is good if you don't talk much - the cost for one minute is 0,29zl to each Polish network. If you need free calls to play/virgin mobile just stick with the play na karte and recharge your card with 50zl once for a while -you get prolonged validity for 100 days.

Merged: Mobile 3G sim for data

Hi everybody

I looking for some advice, my wife is polish and we are trying to get 3G mobile sim only deal.
As we are all getting old, we thought it would be nice to get her parents a iPad, so we could face time them ?

We would like to find out if anyone does face time in Tomaszow Lubelsky, what is the mobile data in that part of Poland like,. Is the mobile data fast enough. The last thing,I what to do is buy a iPad and then find out it's no good. Also could you please give me some prices for a GB pay as you go

Go with this one: WiFiAir
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