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The Offer
- Helium Mobile is offering a free plan with no credit card required when you use promo code BREAKFREE or HELIUMFREE. Plan gives the following:
- 3GB of data
- 300 texts
- 100 minutes of calls
Our Verdict
You need to download the app and sign up there to get a free eSim and number. You don’t need to enter your credit card details either. Downsides to this:
- Need to have location always on for the Helium app
- They share your anonymized calling data
- Must submit drivers license/passport and a selfie
- You tell us in the comments
Personally not enough for my everyday use, but the real use case I can see is when I need another number to complete additional deals. That could be very useful for readers.
Hat tip to Bockrr
Aside from initial ID verification issues (kept telling me it couldn’t verify my selfie), pretty simple signup process. Chatted with support about the ID issues, and they got back to me a couple of hours later that they manually approved my verification after “escalating” my issue, and I was able to sign up after that. Android app is dicey with UI and text scaling oddities, but it worked. Order physical SIM card, and should hopefully be here by the end of next week.
SIM card arrived today.
Referral is now $25 for each party until Apr 4 2025, can we post referral links here???
Helium referrals are now $25 to both parties fyi
Tldr: Jk you can redeem the points immediately,
When you download the app, it will ask you for an invite code. Enter the code GETLUCKY there.
Also, I was able to immediately redeem the 2500 points. Options included Amazon, Target, and Lowe’s, etc.
I think they forgot to lock the points down for the 30 days.
new users only? expired?
ID VERIFICATION REQUIRED. name address dob must match verifier Persona, or else must upload dl. Pass
So can anyone confirm that if you keep location sharing off, I still will be able to text? The comments below indicate they will throttle your data but I don’t care about that.
From my understanding, they will eventually close your account if you haven’t shared your location. That’s how they’re able to offer the plan for free; they’d lose money on each free subscriber that doesn’t share their location. They’re able to do this according to the T&C:
https://hellohelium.com/plan-terms-and-conditions
They reserve the right to end service for, among other things, using “your Service in a manner that is … unprofitable to us”.
esim is much a faster option to activate and use the service. Ordered a physical sim on Feb 6 and tracking says arrival is scheduled for Feb 18. IMAO a physical sim is a more flexible option to switch between backup phones.
unfortunately my backup phone doesnt have esim, just ordered a physical one and they say the wait is ~3 weeks. let’s see how this goes.
“Helium Mobile’s new plans are invite-only for now, but anyone in the U.S. can join the waitlist, join via exclusive code, or get referred by a Helium Mobile subscriber to secure their spot.”
Could someone please invite me?
You can use promo code BREAKFREE or HELIUMFREE to sign up now!
I did subscribe for family (existing member with $5 unlimited plan)