I got a "Our advanced technical support team is actively addressing the error message, and you'll soon be able to renew through the FreedomPop Application during your next renewal cycle."
Just renewed one of my GSMA accounts this morning. No issues.
Surprisingly, renewing FreedomPop "free" plans didn't even make the list.
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Coordinated massive inflation is criminal. 
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I think I'm now renaming this company to 'fubarpop' !!
Had to travel some distance today to a remote town with zero VZ signal, so I powered up the fubarpop GSMA phone & it had signal, so tried my call.
HAH - 'you need to make a payment' uh-huh, a week earlier than the stated date & of course could not log in to even try the useless renewal.
(Haha - no calls for me, too bad.)
Logged into their useless site tonight & it is indeed expired eggs-zachary a week early.
I was in a rural location - 30 minutes plus away from reacquiring VZ service & really NEEDED to make at least that 1st call.
So, will I jump through hoops to renew this truly unreliable GSMA ??
Ask me tomorrow, too long of a day for me to even consider any more about it tonight beyond just sharing this update.
Talk about inflation: over 300% in just a few days !!!
Well, I guess it's always the high quality products that increase most quickly in price. 
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Going back to what I pointed out before...that image is no longer of the version that mentioned the Affordable Connectivity Program, which I speculated they might have been trying to get rid of.
In fact, at least in that screenshot, it doesn't mention what allotments the plan comes with, either - for all I can tell, that could be the 10/10/25 plan, which I've always figured pretty much allows for letting a few people know "help, I'm stuck at such-and-such a place with no phone service" and if you're lucky enough data to log in and upgrade your plan if you need to do more than that. Maybe not, if you have to watch an ad before you can make any changes.
That's the front of the package. The part that shows the ACP and the plan allotments is on the back side like in Sean W.'s post.
Ah. OK, didn't notice the screenshots weren't of the same part of the listing.
BTW, did y'all know that FreedomPop is America's #1 Cell Service for Seniors ?
It says so on their web home page.
I can see why they are making the free plans not auto-renewable. LOL
As I said in One's thread, other than the annoying ads, I have no difficulty renewing my GSMA lines through the app.
I did my first renewal (GSMT) on the app yesterday...weird how you have to wait until it expires, but otherwise, no issue.
Did you try online via FP website first, before doing it via the app?
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Hasn't worked on the website for at least two months
For GSMA, perhaps, no personal experience, but for GSMT, as mentioned by dnoonan, I successfully renewed via the website with chat assistance with the "blocked" message ~ 18 days ago. Repots then were that the app was throwing the same "blocked" message. IIRC the month before that the website renewal went ok w/o any cs intervention.
I have not needed the app yet, will see what happens in ~ 12 days.
I'd gladly use the app already if it let you renew before the line expired/goes dead but reports are it doesn't. I guess at least it no longer throws similar "blocked" error as the website though?
I didn't try the website once my time expired, no. I did try before that, and couldn't do it.
I also did that on the website through chat with one of my GMSA lines when I got the 'blocked message' but they renewed it not me. The ability to renew without chat assistance no longer exists.
SO... GSMA renewal date came & of course it is not accurate, so it cannot be renewed until 1 day or so later when it has already expired.
(That can be horribly unhelpful as I already found out the hard way...)
Then just for yuks, I put the app on the gov phone & tried it there.
Its buttons were all on-screen, but all I could get it to do was to go round & round with ads galore & endlessly opening Chrome for some reason as well.
So I finally gave in & booted up my windoze 7 HDD on my play box & used Bluestacks that way to renew it.
I did find out that Bluestacks can sometimes work under Linux via WINE, but haven,t succeeded at that goal yet - only time will tell now that my curiosity is piqued.