Talk:France/@comment-95.61.38.191-20180510223450/@comment-24682153-20180511165245

I thought this is clear in the article. Any Free Mobile SIM card bought a self-service kiosk (and you only get it there) is activated immediately from the start. This is true for the rolling contract as well as for the prepaid option. In fact, both are prepaid, but the one is with commitment, the other needs to be extended month by month to stay alive. And I mean not only the plan, but the SIM card as well. So your questions are pretty pointless: no period to activate them, and the question whether to activate them outside France doesn't make sense.

Again, this is not an usual prepaid option which can be stopped, paused or started the way you like. It's rather like a contract that starts the moment you buy the SIM and goes on until cancelled (or expired in case of the non-renewable option).