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Not continental Europe, but 3 weeks ago I bought a sandwitch, drink and a Vodaphone sim card at Dublin international, right outside Terminal 2. I paid cash for it. Came with 20GB of data. I never tried it, but apparently you can buy topup vouchers at retailers also for cash.

I converted my number to a bill-pay last week, and I had to submit proof of residence for that. I think they also asked for proof of ID (passport) and proof of residence status.

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Didn't they ask you for your boarding pass? Far fetched, but it could be the reason they didn't ask you anything at the airport.

They said they were outside the terminal. So, I imagine it is like here in Amsterdam where there is an entire shopping mall outside.

There's a WH Smith in T1 in dublin that sells prepaid sims.

> I never tried it, but apparently you can buy topup vouchers at retailers also for cash.

You can, yep. We do it once a month for my partner's mum who would be considered "unbanked".

That's actually where I got my sim. So I went out of T1, and not T2 then.

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