Latest Improvements in Purism’s Privacy-first Cellular Plans
Purism
Latest posts by Purism (see all)
- PureOS Crimson Development Report: September 2024 - October 16, 2024
- Quantum Safe Communication with Purism - September 23, 2024
- Purism Releases STEP File for Librem 5 - September 23, 2024
Our customers and supporters are concerned about the privacy of their phone data. With other big telecom providers, phone data does not stay private; it’s collected, linked with a person’s identity, and sold to advertisers. Purism treats user data like uranium. Unlike Big Telecom, Purism does not spy, and does not share any Personal Identifiable Information (PII) with any cellular carriers, fully protecting the privacy of its users.
In October 2020, Purism launched AweSIM in USA with unlimited talk, text, and data for $99/month as an unlimited prepaid phone plan. Subscribers in US enjoy video streaming, high-speed 4G/4G-LTE data. Roaming is included at no additional cost within the US, US Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Canada, and Mexico. Additionally, subscribers can send texts globally to over 160 countries at no extra cost.
In March 2022, Purism introduced an affordable cell plan, Librem SIMple with high speed data, unlimited talk and text for $39 a month.
Based on customer feedback, Purism introduced “SIMple Plus” in August 2022, which provides subscribers with 4G high speed internet with a higher monthly data limit than the SIMple plan and a $59/month price. The plan is designed especially for those who are interested in the SIMple plan, but would like a higher data cap. All these cellular services works with Librem 5 and Librem 5 USA phones and also, with any unlocked GSM phone in the United States.
And We are Back with Service Improvements
Over the last few months, we have had a number of challenges with our AweSIM cellular service due to our upstream network provider actually declaring bankruptcy with no warning and leaving us (and our customers) without service. We had to scramble to find a new network provider.
Purism team has finally not only found a new network provider, with this new network we have been able to expand our data plans so that SIMple now offers 4 GB data a month and SIMple Plus 10 GB.
While we have been in communication with our AweSIM and SIMple customers while we restored operations, we also want to publicly thank all of them for their patience during this unprecedented set of circumstances. Librem 5 orders that were ready to ship, but which had included AweSIM or SIMple, had to be put on hold while we resolved these issues with the service.
We are restoring service to our existing customers and shipping orders that were on hold. Any orders that haven’t yet shipped will be fulfilled in early January and from that point future AweSIM or SIMple orders will be processed in our standard 10-business-day window.
Purism Products and Availability Chart
| Model | Status | Lead Time | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Librem Key (Made in USA) | In Stock ($59+) | 10 business days | |
 | Librem 5 | In Stock ($699+) 3GB/32GB | 10 business days | |
| Librem 5 COMSEC Bundle | In Stock ($1299+) Qty 2; 3GB/32GB | 10 business days | |
| Liberty Phone (Made in USA Electronics) | Backorder ($1,999+) 4GB/128GB | Estimated fulfillment early November | |
| Librem 5 + SIMple (3 GB Data) | In Stock ($99/mo) | 10 business days | |
| Librem 5 + SIMple Plus (5 GB Data) | In Stock ($129/mo) | 10 business days | |
| Librem 5 + AweSIM (Unlimited Data) | In Stock ($169/mo) | 10 business days | |
 | Librem 11 | In Stock ($999+) 8GB/1TB | 10 business days | |
 | Librem 14 | Backorder ($1,370+) | Estimated fulfillment date pending | |
 | Librem Mini | Backorder ($799+) | Estimated fulfillment November | |
 | Librem Server | In Stock ($2,999+) | 45 business days |
Recent Posts
- The Case for Free/Libre and Open-Source Software: Enhancing Security and Privacy in the Digital Age
- RIP RSA AES: The Immediate Need of Quantum-Resistant Cryptography
- PureOS Crimson Development Report: September 2024
- True Choice for Smartphone Privacy and Security
- The Imperative of NIST-Approved Post-Quantum Resistant Algorithms for Securing Mobile Devices
Related Content
- $99/mo Librem 5 + Librem AweSIM
- Celebrating the Librem 5 Success with a Sale- Save Up to $450 when Bundled with AweSIM
- Digital Freedom: No Clicking on “I Agree” to Use Smartphones or PCs Supported by PureOS!
- Save Up to $300 on The Liberty Phone when Bundled with AweSIM Cellular Services!
- Librem 5 @ $999 or $899 when Bundled with AweSIM Cellular Service
