Lycamoible France Now Has Free Unlimited Data for €5 Topup
 

Prepaid mobile data has always been expensive in France, especially for those without French bank accounts or credit cards from neighboring countries.

Lycamobile has a new offer that seems too good to be true - if you top up at least €5 per month, you get unlimited data. The fine print says that the first 3GB is at 3G speed, then it drops to 2G.

http://www.lycamobile.fr/en/Unlimite...to-Lyca-calls-

No complaints here.
 

I don't think any North Americans would complain!

Just for the record:
 

Terms and conditions:

The language re the data is confusing, in that it says it is valid for the "calendar month" only - which would mean that if you top up on September 29th, your free data would end at midnight of September 30th, one day later.

I am not sure that is confusing. Just a really bad deal as you indicate.

I guess I call it confusing because it is so anomalous that it suggests that whoever wrote it might not have understood the meaning of calendar month (it says mois calendaire in the French version so likely not a translation problem.)

However, I wouldn't call it a bad deal. You can top up with as little as €5. So, if you topped up with €5 on September 29th, and then another €5 on October 1, that is still a very good deal given that you still have the €10 to spend and 33 days of unlimited data.

Also typical of most things on Lycamobile websites it has a short expiration of 30 November 2013. The usual pattern is to extend in one form or another.

Interestingly, Toggle (owned by Lyca) now has the same deal, also for the calendar month only: http://www.togglemobile.co.uk/unlimited-uk/en

the FR version says:
Une fois les 3Go consommés, le réseau mobile est susceptible de passer en 2G.
=> once 3 GO is used, network can move on 2G

for me this offer will end in october or november as promised. the expected margin is data traffic for any cellphone operators.