Free mobile: two plans, iPhone, available plan, competing offers

Even before his arrival,Free
mobilehas already helped change the French mobile landscape.
Remember that the operators put themselves in battle order from
last fall and launched so-called “Low-cost” offers. We can cite
B&Youchez
Bouygues, THEseries Ref at
SFRand Orange for its part launchedof them, of which we had
pu
see the packages in this post.

But this time, serious things have started. After
the tease of Xavier Niel before the holidaysThen
numerous traces intended to maintain the buzz, time
d’announce Free mobile ratesfinally came. It was
the subject of this morning's press conference.

Free promised to redo in the field of telephony what it
had already done in that of internet accessand you will see it,
the least we can say is that the promise is kept:

The principles adopted

The basic principles recalled in the preamble by Xavier Niel:

• no commitment, because "some always offer the
  best offer" so customers won't leave
• no instructionsassociated with packages that do as
  among competitors "70 pages"
• calls abroad: no reason to pay more
  expensive to just cross the border sometimes a few hundred meters from
  at your place
• SMS: still too expensive, MMS, too
• Fair use of 3GB rather than 500 to 1 GB
• all Internet possible with the integrated data plan: VoIP, mode
  modem

Prices

Two packages only

• 19,99 eurosfor unlimited calls, SMS / MMS included, Fair
  use of 3 GB, integrated calls to 40 foreign destinations, with
  possibility ofblock out-of-packagesfor the
  children.

• The small-use package:2 euros for 60 minutes of
  communication et 60 SMS

And for Free ADSL subscribers, whatever the offer:

• price of15,99 eurosfor the all-unlimited mobile plan
  (Fair use 3 Go)
• package normally at 2 eurosofferedfor subscribers
  Free

Package limited to3 million first customers

Mobiles

See
the price and availability of iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S at Free in this
article

• Many mobiles will be available financed over several months
• no simlock
• iPhone for 1 euro (and of course an associated credit)

Competition

For comparison, here are examples of current “low cost” offers from
competitors Sosh and SFR:

At Sosh

• first package:2 hoursde communication
  telephone and500 Moof data proposed for19,90
  €monthly / special series at 1 GB and modem mode included for 22.90
  euros
• the second:5 hourswith1 Goof
  date to29,90 €monthly
• a packageUnlimited voicewith1 Goof
  data is him39,90 €monthly

At SFR, there are 4 “RED” packages:

• RED SMS Seriesat 12€/month:30min calls,
  Unlimited SMS/MMS, minutes carried over butno internet
  mobile
• RED 3H Seriesat 19€/month:3h d’appels,
  Unlimited SMS/MMS, minutes carried over butno internet
  mobile
• RED Series 8hat 29€/month:8h d’appels,
  Unlimited SMS/MMS, minutes carryover, VoIP,500 Mo d’internet
  mobile
• RED Series 2hat 34€/month:2h d’appels,
  Unlimited SMS/MMS, minutes carryover, VoIP,2Go d’internet
  mobile

Finally, registrations are open in the morningon the Free mobile page

A response from other operators is probably already ready and will
disembark, let's have no doubt, the war is on!
For those who were waiting for Free Mobile, are you satisfied?
?