Samba Mobile, a free mobile broadband company, and yuilop, a free mobile communications app, have created a strategic partnership s both companies can offer free mobile broadband, voice, chat and texts in the UK.

Samba Mobile offers free credit or data on the Three network in exchange for watching video ads or referring friends. It launched in July 2012 and has 10,000 customers.

Barcelona-based yuilop offers a free iOS and Android app which gives users worldwide access to free voice calls, text messages and unlimited multimedia chat. Its international roll-out started in March 2012.

Samba and yuilop said they will also aim to align their services more closely, enabling users to easily interact with promotions and adverts across either platform. No more detail has been given.

“yuilop was started on the belief that free global communication should be a basic right for everyone,” said Jochen Doppelhammer, founder and CEO of yuilop. “There should be no barriers to free communications and our partnership with like-minded Samba Mobile underscores that principle.”