Best SIM Card Options for Alarm Control Panel: Play Odnowa & Other Current Offers

The offers are constantly changing. Hence the request to add to the thread in your opinion favorable offers at the moment.
My verification shows that Play Odnowa is an interesting solution, but maybe there is something more interesting?

P.S. Admin, please don't mark this topic as [solved]. There was such a thread before, but unfortunately marked in this way, and it is known that offers are constantly evolving.

What you write doesn't bother you:

With pre-paid : Orange IoT pre-paid, to use as GPRS data with the application ideal:
- advantages: can be used in telemetry devices! can be purchased by an individual!
2G/GPRS coverage almost throughout Poland, for PLN 5/month, 0.5GB of data, cyclical package,
- cons: SMS for PLN 40, CALL for PLN 40/min, dedicated APN: iot

If the card is to be used only for SMS/Clips, and only occasionally for data transfer, I recommend only pre-paid Orange: you buy any starter and change to Orange Free. This must be done before top-up, because with some other tariff plans, the funds may disappear. Then you activate the "Account valid for a year" service for PLN 9/year. An additional advantage is the ability to manage all your numbers via the app on your phone - in an easy and pleasant way (the number appears on the list immediately after buying the starter, you don't have to mess with adding, sending a verification SMS, etc.). The downside is quite expensive SMS/min rates.
The cheaper version is Nju Mobile, but managing the number is a chore and you have to keep an eye on top-ups every six months, otherwise the card will be turned off.
Plus introduced a fee of PLN 3 / month for the lack of traffic on the account, so for me they are over.
Play disables cards in M2M devices.
T-Mobile - currently I do not use and do not know the current offer.

Hello,

kindlar wrote:

What you write doesn't bother you:

Buddy @kindlar, in Play OdNowa so-called. "paid activity" is also topping up the account. It is best to set up a cyclical top-up in the application of the bank where we have a bank account. Then we forget everything. For a month without paid activity in this offer, Play charges PLN 3. As I wrote earlier, it is enough to top up the account or, for example, buy an internet package (the one-time one will not be lost).
To the author - telemetry cards should be used for this type of solutions...

Regards.

PS:

Alpha wrote:

Plus introduced a fee of PLN 3 / month for the lack of traffic on the account, so for me they are over.

Exactly... I don't understand people for whom spending 3 or 5 PLN a month for maintaining a card monitoring their belongings is a problem, but that's another topic...

bhtom wrote:

Alpha wrote:

Plus introduced a fee of PLN 3 / month for the lack of traffic on the account, so for me they are over.

Exactly... I don't understand people for whom spending 3 or 5 PLN a month for maintaining a card monitoring their belongings is a problem, but that's another topic...

What's there to understand...
It's PLN 36 a year for a card, I have a dozen of these cards to support .... Maybe you'll shrug it off, but for me it's a real saving.
A customer looking after his belongings could think about paid SSWiN maintenance from time to time: replacing the battery in the control panel, batteries in wireless sensors, uploading updates, checking correct operation .... But that's by the way.

Hello,

Alpha wrote:

What's there to understand...
Annually it is PLN 36 per card, I have a dozen of these cards to maintain....

But it's probably the customer who should keep the SIM card in his PBX or GSM module, not the Installer...
Well, unless those dozen cards guard your wealth, that's another matter... :)

Regards.

There are also foreign service cards, e.g. https://1nce.com/en/pricing/

TvWidget wrote:

There are also foreign service cards, e.g. https://1nce.com/en/pricing/

Does it work in Poland?

Works excluding NB-IoT
https://soyter.pl/1nce,1250,pl.html

I use FACT mob. Each top-up (minimum PLN 5) extends the account by 1 year for outgoing and the prices are cool (15 PLN min/sms)

bhtom wrote:

Alpha wrote:

What's there to understand...
Annually it is PLN 36 per card, I have a dozen of these cards to maintain....

But it's probably the customer who should keep the SIM card in his PBX or GSM module, not the Installer...
Well, unless those dozen cards guard your wealth, that's another matter...

Well, let me ask you an additional question: do you buy and register the cards for yourself, or do you outsource the purchase, registration and (later) maintenance of the card to the client?

Ircys wrote:

Well, let me ask you an additional question: do you buy and register the cards for yourself, or do you outsource the purchase, registration and (later) maintenance of the card to the client?

In my case - mainly individual customers - sooner or later they forgot about checking the account balance and top-ups, so in most cases it was on my shoulders. Of course, this only applies to prepaid cards. Few of them set up accounts on operator portals to be able to control and manage cards.

I approach it in such a way that customers simply select a SIM card for their subscription - they do not have to remember about an additional number in another network (it would be cheaper), because usually an additional number costs PLN 10-30, depending on what tariff they choose. ..

Hello,

Alpha wrote:

In my case - mainly individual customers - sooner or later they forgot about checking the account balance and top-ups, so in most cases it was on my shoulders.

A very strange approach... Why should the Installer take care of the maintenance of customer cards? They don't remember, they don't top up, they don't have a notification...

Regards.

bhtom wrote:

A very strange approach... Why should the Installer take care of the maintenance of customer cards? They don't remember, they don't top up, they don't have a notification...

Well, I don't complain about the lack of work, and the cards expired at the least appropriate moments .... I got bored of constantly exchanging them, because there is no interest in it, and I still lack time. This is who I am: soft heart, hard d..a

I found something else like this in NJU. You turn on the subscription and start direct debit (you only pay for 3 months), then only for events.

Quote:

In nju, the amount of your bill depends on how much you use your phone. If you don't use it, you pay nothing. The exception is the first 3 months, where the lowest invoice is PLN 9. After 3 full billing periods, this amount ceases to apply to you, and bills may already amount to PLN 0.

Remember, however, that your bill can be PLN 0 for a maximum of 5 billing periods in a row. If you do not use the phone at all for 6 months, your number will be transferred to the nju prepaid offer.

Fees in the unlimited service are calculated on the basis of individual, single payable events for each number held by the Subscriber up to the limit. In exceptional cases, due to the rules set out in the Act on tax on goods and services regarding the rounding of amounts on invoices, resulting from the sum of these individual payable events, the Spending Limit may increase by PLN 1 for each number held by the Subscriber.

I think this thread is not looking for the cheapest SIM card, but one that works, you can manage it in the alarm system.
The proposals show that a sensible card costs PLN 3-5 per month - it allows for GPRS and SMS communication.
I think that looking for services for 'free' = the same quality of service.

I use a Virgin Mobile prepaid card - package #mini9 - PLN 9/month - including 300 text messages, 300 minutes of calls and 1GB of internet. When there is money on the card, the same is charged to renew.

I personally recommend the Orange IoT card
The best card in my opinion

__MATEUSZ___ wrote:

I personally recommend the Orange IoT card
The best card in my opinion

Because? Some arguments would be nice...

Please go to https://www.orange.pl/view/iot-na-karte

Hello,

Maybe to the Internet itself is a good solution, but what if we need to send a test SMS every day? At 40gr each, it will accumulate a little in a month...

Regards.

Only a2mobile.

I am looking for a prepaid for the internet only, sometimes I need to send/receive more data from the device. So IoT from orange is out. I'm wondering if any operator has an offer where the data is valid, for example, for a quarter, calculated for consumption and not for time, most crooks give terabytes but for 1 day. In general, if you don't count, sending some 70 mb every 2 days will always come out 1 PLN / day. It seems that there is no card only for the Internet (and if they are already so constructed/combined plans/penalties/expiring/ that it is just as good or even better to buy a prepaid card with everything, where you pay PLN 30/month. For now, I am looking for something If I come across something interesting, I'll let you know.

Hello,

Play has an OdNowa offer. It includes a one-off, unlimited 1GB transfer package. The catch, however, is the need for "paid activity" in a given month (billing period). If there is no "traffic" on the account, they take PLN 5 per month. But if you top up your account for PLN 5 in one month, buy a 1GB package for PLN 5 in the second month, and top up again for PLN 5 in the third month, there should be no additional fees. You can buy subsequent packages without using the previous ones.

Regards.

i.e. 1gb comes out to 5 PLN/month, unless they charge a penalty (forget it, you will be on vacation, that's what they count on, they have already done the appropriate research there) when I read PUNISHMENT with a fine for not using it, I have some natural objection.
I check Lyca and they have 1gb/5 PLN/month and 2gb/7/month, and others, I don't know if they impose any PENALTIES yet.

Hello,

If you are afraid that you will forget, then set up a cyclical / monthly top-up of PLN 5 in the banking application and after the matter. Not a problem these days
A 1GB data package costs PLN 5, and when you use it, it's your business. You can top up your account regularly every month (PLN 5), and buy a package every six months...

Regards.

Virgin mobile MINI 3 is enough for me. It costs all 3 zlotys - 300 MB LTE, 30 SMS, 30 minutes per month. If not, 1 GB for PLN 1, 400 text messages for PLN 3.

lmax wrote:

Virgin mobile MINI 3 is enough for me. It costs all 3 zlotys - 300 MB Lte, 30 SMS, 30 minutes per month. If not, 1 GB for PLN 1, 400 text messages for PLN 3.

Virgin is a "daughter" of the Play network, and I have had such experience with Play that cards were blocked in m2m devices - sooner or later, but always. You don't have such problems?