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[UPDATE] Last day to get our limited time 4GB / $40 promo plan!

Brooke_C
Retraité / Retired
Retraité / Retired

 

Note: The promo plan has been removed from our website; however is still available in the activation portal and in Self-Serve. 

 

We will be honouring the promo plan for all customers who ordered their SIM card between October 25th-November 16th, but did not receive it before November 20th.

 

Why the November 16th cut-off date you might ask? SIM card orders take 1-2 business days to arrive at your home, and Canada Post does not deliver on the weekends. Knowing that there is a lead time for SIM cards to arrive, we have temporarily stopped SIM card ordering until after the promotion is complete. This is because anyone who would have ordered a SIM card after November 16th would not have received their SIM card in enough time to sign up for the promo plan. We didn’t want anyone to get your hopes up and then be disappointed.

 

If you get a SIM card at one of our pick-up locations this Friday and Saturday, you will need to sign-up for our promo plan on or before November 20th. The promo plan will not be honoured for these customers after November 20th.

 

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Hey Community,

 

Yes, you read the subject line correctly! From October 25th to November 20th, we will be offering an amazing promotion where you can get 12GB of data, unlimited province-wide talk and unlimited global text on a 90 day plan for only $120. This equates to 4GB each month for the low, low price of $40 every 30 days. If there was ever a time to get friends and family to join Public Mobile, now would be it!

 

Check out the full details below to see how you and your friends and family can sign up for this awesome plan!

 

Things you need to know

 

  • This is the only promotional plan during this period. No other plans are affected
  • During the promo period, there will be two plans totaling $120: (1) the 6GB unlimited province-wide talk and global text plan and (2) the promotional plan, which has 12GB of data. Please be sure to choose the plan with twice as much data for the exact same price!
  • If you have signed up for the promotional plan, you will be able to keep it after the promo period, as long as you are an active customer. This means that, as long as you are an active customer on this plan, your plan price will remain at $120, even after your initial 90 days. No surprises. 

Getting the plan

 

Pick & Pay Customers

 

If you are an existing Pick & Pay customer and are interested in taking advantage of the promo plan, you have two options:

 

  1. If your plan ends during the promo period: You can sign up for the plan in self-serve, as you normally would to change your plan
  2. If your plan ends after the promo period: You can future date a rate plan change during the promotional period, and have the promo plan take effect after November 20th. For example, if you’re currently on a 90 day plan that ends on November 28th, you will be able to sign into self-serve anytime between October 25th-November 20th and future date the promo plan to take effect upon your existing plan’s completion. Come November 21st, you would no longer be able to future date the promo plan.

This means that everyone has the option to take advantage of this great deal, regardless of when your existing rate plan ends. 

 

Legacy Customers

 

If you are a legacy customer who is interested in having this promo plan, you will need to call into the call centre and upgrade to the Pick & Pay plan. Please note that, once you switch to a Pick & Pay plan, you will be unable to switch back to your old plan and will lose access to the call centre.

 

 New Customers: You want to join because the grass is really greener over here

 

As a new customer, you can add the promo plan when you are prompted in the activation process. You will need to have your SIM card in hand in order to activate, so please be sure to order it first!

 

-Public Mobile Community team

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Saray_O
Deputy Mayor / Adjoint au Maire

Hi @john-i

 

Thank you for letting us know about this! 🙂 

 

Could you send me a private message with your Public Mobile phone number or account number so I can take a look at this issue?

 

 

 

*Please do not post private info such as: phone number, account number, pin etc.. This is a public forum.

Rockdaddy22
Retired Oracle / Oracle Retraité
Are you serious? That's why it's cheap? Maybe you have a failed port that you can't fix yourself. Glad you fixed your data, because that's not PM's problem. The port is.
http://productioncommunity.publicmobile.ca/t5/Announcements/Information-required-before-sending-a-me...

@mharichu, ive been getting incoming calls, and texts and all of my data works. Its only your SIM card or something went wrong during activation 

mharichu
Good Citizen / Bon Citoyen
Its been 3 days since I activated my SIM car.

Problems are:
1. I have signal.
2. No incoming text and calls, but I have out going text and calls.
3. No data.

I did received some advice, someone said that someone can help me just to send my info into private messages but at the end of the day you have to do it my self.

Solution.
1. I've fixed my data.
2. I've tried to fix my incoming text and calls. I've followed all the instructions it says my SIM IS INVALID.

Now I started to believe the that's way the deal is so cheap maybe because INCOMING CALLS and TEXT are not included.

bcsteeve
Great Citizen / Super Citoyen

speaking of billing... why do I have a $12 credit showing on my account?  I signed up for the auto-pay, so that should be $6, right?  But what's the other $6 for?  Certainly not complaining 🙂

 

[edit:]

 

It looks like a mistake:

 

Date Transaction TypeCredit (Payments)Debit (Charges)Balance

Nov 18, 2016AutoPay Reward$6.00 $12.00
Nov 18, 2016AutoPay Reward$6.00 $6.00
Nov 18, 2016Unlimited Provincial Talk/Appels Illimités dans la Province $51.00$0.00
Nov 18, 2016Unlimited International Text/Messagerie texte à l'International $45.00$51.00
Nov 18, 201612GB Data/Données 12 Go $125.00$96.00
Nov 18, 201690-day pass/Passe de 90 jours $25.00$221.00
Nov 18, 2016Fall 2016 Promo/Offre de l’automne 2016$126.00 $246.00
Nov 18, 2016Credit/Visa Debit TopUp-Réapprov crédit/Visa Débit$120.00 

$120.00

 

Auto pay bonus applied twice.

JUNA1D5HAH
Great Citizen / Super Citoyen

On Saturday I was able to activate two new lines and port them over in less than 30 minutes.

It ws a very simple, seamless process.

I have to commend Public Mobile on their system.

I was with Bell for 14 years and never had any interaction (phone/email/website) as smooth as this.

I hope Public Mobile continues to work this way.

I have been spreading the word by mouth and social media.

 

#PublicMobile #PM #4GBfor40 #PM4Life

 

@john-i the billing history never shows the tax

That screenshot isn't same as what your credit card bill will say

 

Rockdaddy22
Retired Oracle / Oracle Retraité
Lol 🙂

bcsteeve
Great Citizen / Super Citoyen

I Googled the stuffing out of it!  I spent hours giving it mouth to mouth before posting. She is dead dead!

jairolevi
Town Hero / Héro de la Ville

I always get charged tax...  Smiley Sad

 

I would be happy if they didnt charge me hehe

 


@john-i wrote:

 

It says they were going to charge me $120+tax.  

My Credit card was only charged $120.


 

pmed
Good Citizen / Bon Citoyen
I set up 5 accounts last night for my wife and some family. When it was time to do the 6th one which was my number around 11:00 pm it would lag and then give me an error page. I tried several times and still couldn't sign up 😞

Rockdaddy22
Retired Oracle / Oracle Retraité
I wouldn't complain 🤑

john-i
Great Neighbour / Super Voisin

Signed up on Saturday Night.   No issues.

Went from Telus to Public Mobile

It says they were going to charge me $120+tax.  

My Credit card was only charged $120.

 

Nov 19, 2016AutoPay Reward$6.00 $6.00
Nov 19, 2016Unlimited Provincial Talk/Appels Illimités dans la Province $51.00$0.00
Nov 19, 2016Unlimited International Text/Messagerie texte à l'International $45.00$51.00
Nov 19, 201612GB Data/Données 12 Go $125.00$96.00
Nov 19, 201690-day pass/Passe de 90 jours $25.00$221.00
Nov 19, 2016Fall 2016 Promo/Offre de l’automne 2016$126.00 $246.00
Nov 19, 2016Credit/Visa Debit TopUp-Réapprov crédit/Visa Débit$120.00 

$120.00

 

 

 

* Also signed up for Auto Pay.  Got $6 in "AutoRewards." On Feb 16 2017, I only have to pay $114.

srlawren
Retired Oracle / Oracle Retraité

@bcsteeve oh man, that sucks!  What kind of phone is it?  Maybe try googling the phone make and model and "unbricking" or "unbrick guide" to see if you can find a way to restore it?


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srlawren
Retired Oracle / Oracle Retraité

@yoyoio sorry, you are too late if you completed your activation after 11:59 PM EST (eastern standard time--Toronto/Montreal time).  


>>> ALERT: I am not a moderator. For account or activation assistance, please click here.

yoyoio
Great Neighbour / Super Voisin

I just signed up, and I m having trouble getting the plan? Does Mod have to manually change it? 

bcsteeve
Great Citizen / Super Citoyen

Well sheeeeeiiit.   All that drama getting myself on the plan, and now I don't have a phone to go with it.

 

Stupid phone.

 

I wasn't getting the data to work and eventually I did a factory reset.  That got the data but then something was wrong with the storage (not sure what).  I did another reset and the thing never came back on!  It is completely dead.  Ugh.

texwood
Great Citizen / Super Citoyen

I just sneaked in...Smiley Very Happy

 

A couple of hours ago my phone wasstill with Telus.  I have been contemplating whether to port over to PM over the past few weeks.  My Telus plan was't bad ($55/5GB grandfathered corporate plan) but I figured that saving $15/month is nothing to sneeze at.  So I decided to take the PM offer and did the port online shortly prior to midnight.  Everything went smoothly, with my number ported over from Telus almost right away. 

 

There was a bit of concern at first as for some reason my initial PM data connection was only under HSPA (despite that I was connecting to Telus on my phone under LTE for the past year).  Fortunately power off & on of my phone and it connected back to LTE under PM.

 

 

imm1304
Retired Oracle / Oracle Retraité

PM is fair and consistent with their plans and changes.  So I don't worry about them leaving me out of some special deal.  

 

Its really up to you.. if you wanna wait, then just wait for the peace of mind.  Not much to lose. 

pmed
Good Citizen / Bon Citoyen
So it means that it has happened b4? I wondering if I should wait 10 days and reserve this plan so if something really good comes up I can forfeit those 10 days and get the better deal

imm1304
Retired Oracle / Oracle Retraité

@pmed, it will be really very hard to beat the current promo plan.  

 

I wouldn't worry about being left out either.  Get used to the PM experience 😉  

pmed
Good Citizen / Bon Citoyen
What would suck if black Friday they have a super awesome plan and it's restricted only to new activations 😞

sameer76
Great Neighbour / Super Voisin
Yes indeed. I am new to public mobile and thought I could order the Sim online and get the sim number emailed to me just like how it happens with other services such as credit cards and airmiles etc.... I thought the physical card would come later but the number would be available

imm1304
Retired Oracle / Oracle Retraité

Hi @Lia!

 

You can send a private message to one of the mods with a brief explanation.  You will be able to get on the promo plan but it will have to be done by a PM staff so that you don't lose the money you paid today.  

 

Please have patience and eventually your message will get a response.  But do send in a private message now.

bcsteeve
Great Citizen / Super Citoyen

Strange wording.  The fact that you failed to select the correct item is not the same as it "not letting" you select the right plan?  I mean... choosing the correct items *is* the plan.

Lia
Good Citizen / Bon Citoyen

Just realized that it was preset on choosing 'no text' which was causing the problem and not letting me select the right plan.

 

Sould I send a private message and ask them to make that change?

 

Thanks for your help!

 

Lia

Lia
Good Citizen / Bon Citoyen

Tried that, but still doesn't let me select it.

 

I'm using Firefox should I use a differrent browser?

 

Thanks,

Lia

 

 

Rockdaddy22
Retired Oracle / Oracle Retraité
It only shows during activation or in self serve.

Rockdaddy22
Retired Oracle / Oracle Retraité
It's still there, select
90 days
Provincial calling
Global text
12GB data
It should come out to $120+Tax

Lia
Good Citizen / Bon Citoyen

Thanks for your reply.

 

It was there, but it didn't let me select it.

 

Should I do the same for my husband? Selecting the plan for $120 is it a good option?

 

thanks,

Lia

 

 

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