FreedomPop Launches “Free” Global Data Hotspot And SIM - and Competition?

[kctopitz]

Originally Posted by andy

I will be getting one of those Three SIMs soon, but its free roaming is in a different list of countries, 10 European and 8 others.

Can you confirm whether you need to top up first before you get the free data? If that's the case it's a minimum of £10, so that plus being outside the UK and having to buy it through a 3rd party (add 10%) means about $15. Not bad, but probably not worth it for me to buy a SIM just to test it out.