Free Lance "Free Flex", its mobile rental offer with option to buy and without commitment

Alexandre Boero 07 July 2021 at 10:2935xavier Niel (© Iliad)

The Free Flex offer allows any consumer to spread the price of a smartphone by praising it while offering him to buy it when he wishes, and above all, without additional cost announced.

Free was already the great specialist in France of mobile rental.This principle, which offers the guarantee of changing the phone every 24 months, hires the subscriber over this period and has often been considered to be unattractive financially, in addition to the famous fees charged in the event of stopping the rental offer.Xavier Niel's wish was to kick the anthill and bring more transparency to practice.And also, to offer the public a certain accuracy.The Free Flex subscription offer was born.

Mobile rental, how is it already working?

Concretely, how is the Free Flex offer composed?

But what happens if you want to buy the smartphone permanently?

This is where Free begins to change things.This is already the case before: it is possible, at any time, to buy your mobile, just as the subscriber can very well return if he wishes at the end of the 24 months of commitment.But, if he wants to become the owner permanently, he will only have to pay the remaining purchase option.

Take the example of the Xiaomi Redmi Note 10 5G.Its final purchase option is set at 26 euros.This is therefore the amount you will have to pay if you want the mobile to be definitively yours, in the event that you expect the term 24 months of rental.If you want to buy it before, you will have to pay the remaining monthly payments from the subscriber space.

In total, with the starting amount, the monthly payments and the purchase option, the Redmi Note 10 5G will have cost you 229 euros.This is precisely the price applied by the official Xiaomi shop as well as in most deemed resellers known to be serious and known.

Free embarks on the "right price" and advocates the "without commitment"

Free definitively wants to reassure the public on his desire to apply a fair price.The price of the mobile, and this is verified on the fifty models already attached to the offer, is spread out without any costs over 24 months.The operator clearly specifies that "in the event of purchase, you do not pay its mobile more expensive than its real price".In other words, the rental with purchase option will make you pay the same price for a mobile as if you pay it cash.

With Free Flex, Xavier Niel's operator wants to offer freedom to his customers, allowing them to access the smartphone while retaining a non -binding package.All mobile packages therefore remain at the same price, even in the event of a rental.Be careful however, since only subscribers who have subscribed to the Free Package (9.99 euros per month for Freebox Pop subscribers; 15.99 euros for other Freebox subscribers; and 19.99 euros for mobile subscribers alone) orFree (9.99 euros per month for 1 year) can benefit from Free Flex.The famous 2 euros mobile plan is excluded from the Flex field.

"The mobile packages therefore remain at unchanged prices with Free Flex.There is no hidden cost: the subscriber knows exactly what he pays, thanks to separate monthly payments on the one hand and lesélephone on the other hand "notes free.

The Free Flex offer is also "responsible", in the air of the circular economy.The operator indeed offers both new phones and reconditioned mobiles.Collection boxes are also installed in all free shops in the country, in partnership with the Bocage workshops.

The founder of the Iliad group, Xavier Niel, and its managing director, Thomas Reynaud, took stock for Clubic on the launch of the mobile rental offer with option to buy the operator: Free Flex.Read more

Source: Free press release