Freedom Pop launches its free mobile service in the UK

Current iPhone 6 users can now move their device to FreedomPop’s iPhone-Only plan and it will start selling financed the iPhone 6S directly in October.

The United Kingdom launch comes on the heels of testing the service over the summer. Needless to say, you FreedomPop will also charge you for any use above those basic allowances. The UK’s newest MVNO has launched today, and as promised, offers a completely free SIM-only tariff with 200 minutes, 200 texts and 200MB of 4G data per month (courtesy of Three’s network) – well, it’s free after you pay the £7 for SIM delivery and activation, anyway.

FreedomPop has chosen the United Kingdom as its first area for expansion outside its home market of the USA.

Another notable aspect of the service is that it’s entirely internet-based. FreedomPop says this plan is heavier on data than past offerings. The first 10,000 users to sign up in the United Kingdom will be offered a special plan with 1000 minutes of talk time, 1000 texts and 1 GB of data free for the first month of service. This represents a huge discount on the typical price for an iPhone plan in the US , which typically can cost between $40 and $60 for the lowest-cost services.

“The United Kingdom has had many mobile providers and services enter the market, but none offer free service, guaranteed for life”, said CEO and FreedomPop co-founder Stephen Stokols.

Activate your iPhone on the free plan and FreedomPop will add a hefty 5GB of data to your account, and free global calls to 62 different countries. Users can complete surveys, download coupons, register for free trials and such to boost their monthly data allowances, and if they’re feeling particularly flush, can even gift some of that data to another FreedomPop subscriber. The firm will start to sell iPhones next month, reports TechCrunch, which should boost the (currently low) number of iPhone users using its network. “We’ve been playing with it in the USA for hotspot users but it will roll out first in the United Kingdom and very soon after in the U.S”.