Helium Mobile has
Helium Mobile Zero Plan w/ 100 Minutes Talk, 300 Texts & 3GB of Data (per month) for
Free when you
Bring Your Own Device and follow the instructions below by using code
BREAKFREE at signup.
Thanks to community member
WackyP for finding this deal.
Deal Instructions:
- An unlocked T-Mobile-compatible device is required.
- Download the Helium Mobile app (Android / iOS)
- Open the app and when prompted, enter invite-only code BREAKFREE
- Proceed through the setup process by proving the following details:
- Valid email address
- Your name, home address and date of birth
- Complete the identity security check using a valid government-issued ID (i.e. a driver's license) and taking a 'selfie' photo.
- No credit card or other payment info is required for this free plan.
- You may select eSIM or physical SIM card activation (SIM card ships free).
- Your monthly Zero Plan w/ 100 talk minutes, 300 texts and 3GB of data will be Free
How is Helium Mobile able to offer a free phone plan? (
source)
- "Helium Mobile's free plan is made possible with its community-built network, a new type of infrastructure that is less expensive than legacy carriers. In exchange for the free plan, you'll share your anonymized location data, enabling the community to create coverage where it's most needed."
Plan Features (per month):
- 100 minutes talk
- 300 texts
- 3GB of high-speed data (4G LTE/5G)
- Note: hotspot data is not available on the free Zero plan.
- No credit card needed
- You may port your existing number to Helium Mobile if desired
- Earn Rewards with Cloud Points
- Redeem points for gift cards to travel, dining, and other experiences.
- Helium Mobile operates on the T-Mobile network
Top Comments
If you think I'm joking, check your own current paid ISP plan's terms of service. Non-trivial probability they're already doing similar to you, at least if you're not protected by something like the EU's GDPR.
Is that what's going on here, or is their business model different somehow?
Anyways...So they will pay you in their crypto token., Which they then accept as payment.Or you can sell yourself. Im assuming they are going to expand on this somehow.
Also a while back they were talking about another app that carriers were going to opt into that allows people to use each others phones a a hotspot for a small fee.
Just a guess but maybe something with this as well.
They are not the only company going this way there are going to be some announcements very soon of others going this path
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Credit is not everything
anyhow, like I said, if people want to do bad things by using my information, it's already widely available. I am not giving up anything new. my dump and paste have all these already.
I have emailed the support, anyone getting similar issue?
I'm sure you love your children, and want to provide for their safety in an emergency. Personally, if I didn't consider the plan good enough, and stable enough, for me to use, I most certainly wouldn't consider it an acceptable phone for an emergency involving my children.
Or do you port your Phone number over to them?
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they just wanna make sure you're not signing up for duplicate accounts.
I have emailed the support, anyone getting similar issue?
Failed too. Won't let me try again either.
Q: I do have to ask you know giving away something for free a zero dollar plan, it's a bold thing to do. We all know then whenever something valuable is given away for free, there are people who are going to try to come by to game or exploit it. You know, basically try to get more out of the system than the system intends to give. So how do you intend to combat that type of behavior?
A: So first of all, we're very transparent with our customers, and we want to make sure they understand what the benefits are and why it's something that is for the better of society. And sort of leading with that intention, we hope that people don't abuse the system. But in the case that it does happen, we do have a few stop gaps in place.
The first of which is we do require identity verification. It's pretty standard if you've ever signed up for financial services. If you've used Robinhood, you've probably gone through identity verification, and it's very similar. Give us your name, your address, tell us the ID, a little selfie check, and this is all partnered with a 3rd party that stores all that information.
We don't store any of it. We have no access to them. And we obviously do not sell that information. So, you private information is very secure and protected so that we can make sure that it is one account per person because we want everyone to enjoy the service, and we also want to make sure that we continue to offer this great service to everybody.
https://youtu.be/dXFsHrRPpkk?t=1
many orgs already sold our info many times
Q: I do have to ask you know giving away something for free a zero dollar plan, it's a bold thing to do. We all know then whenever something valuable is given away for free, there are people who are going to try to come by to game or exploit it. You know, basically try to get more out of the system than the system intends to give. So how do you intend to combat that type of behavior?
A: So first of all, we're very transparent with our customers, and we want to make sure they understand what the benefits are and why it's something that is for the better of society. And sort of leading with that intention, we hope that people don't abuse the system. But in the case that it does happen, we do have a few stop gaps in place.
The first of which is we do require identity verification. It's pretty standard if you've ever signed up for financial services. If you've used Robinhood, you've probably gone through identity verification, and it's very similar. Give us your name, your address, tell us the ID, a little selfie check, and this is all partnered with a 3rd party that stores all that information.
We don't store any of it. We have no access to them. And we obviously do not sell that information. So, you private information is very secure and protected so that we can make sure that it is one account per person because we want everyone to enjoy the service, and we also want to make sure that we continue to offer this great service to everybody.
https://youtu.be/dXFsHrRPpkk?t=1
helium verification & total wireless verification, same thing?
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