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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Took almost a week to change from "label created* to" USPS accepted package".
Lmao. Definitely dumbest comment in the whole thread. You're telling me all my Samsung phones from the last 3 years have no physical sim slot. 😂
Put their app on battery saver. Will look into just fully uninstalling later if the drain still continues at noticeable levels.
They asked ID.. is there a way to bypass it.?
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Wish I knew about TextNow before signing up for Helium. Oh well, give a shot and wait for an
extra phone, then sign up for TextNow or drop Helium if it's BAD...
EDIT: actually wifi calling doesnt not count towards your minutes, so this plan is really good. does anyone know if i can port my number ot this?
For the grandfathered $20 plan, Helium users could earn HNT (Helium cryptocurrency) by mapping their location data. Helium only considers areas where no other Helium users have been within the last hour as being valuable location sharing. At least valuable enough for Helium to give them HNT.
For the free plan, users still share location data. Instead of users getting HNT, the HNT goes to Helium. Helium then gives a certain amount of earnings to user in the form of Cloud Points. Again, I would think only unmapped areas within the last hour is worth anything to Helium.
So, I would expect Helium to keep track of all location shares and which ones are "good" because that is how they will determine how many Cloud Points to issue to a user. Therefore, it seems reasonable to expect consequences if a user uninstalls the Helium app.
When the Zero Plan first launched, Helium hinted that they could throttle users (to 64kbps???) as a warning who do not share location. As a last resort, they could cancel the free plan for that user.
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