topic Re: Select ready-made plans expiring May 21 in Announcements

Select ready-made plans expiring May 21

Alan_K — Tue, 21 May 2019 14:24:35 GMT

Hey Community,

As of May 20th, 11:59 PM, the following price plans are being expired:

$20 for 250 MB at 3G speed (Data only)
$20 for Unlimited Province-Wide Talk
$47 for 2 GB at 4G LTE speed

To check out our other plans, go to publicmobile.ca/plans.

Have some questions about this change? Check out our FAQs or post below.

-Public Mobile Community Team

FAQ

Question	Answer
Will I keep the same plan forever? Will my plan change?	Please refer to our Terms of Service for more information about our plans.
My current plan is one of the ones set to expire. Is any action required from me?	If you would like to continue on your current plan, no change is required.
I currently have one of these plans. If I switch to another plan, can I switch back?	You can switch back to these plans up to May 21. After that, these plans will no longer be available.

Re: Select ready-made plans expiring May 21

Dunkman — Tue, 21 May 2019 14:28:30 GMT

@Alan_K

Thanks for the update.

Compared to the $15 and $25 "promo" plans, those remaining plans don't provide much value. Good to get rid of those plans.

Re: Select ready-made plans expiring May 21

Triguy — Tue, 21 May 2019 14:44:16 GMT

Hopefully, PM will be implementing new plans especially for data only.

Re: Select ready-made plans expiring May 21

zfx — Tue, 21 May 2019 14:47:42 GMT

Who would use $20 for 250 MB at 3G speed (Data only) plan lol, it's just doesn't make any sense since we had that $15 plan...

Re: Select ready-made plans expiring May 21

TheOldVR — Tue, 21 May 2019 15:08:43 GMT

These have been replaced by better options I believe.... hopefully more deals to come!

Re: Select ready-made plans expiring May 21

will13am — Tue, 21 May 2019 15:25:42 GMT

The full speed LTE plan is overpriced and likely not popular. It is sad to see loss of anything full speed LTE. I don't like seeing data speed being monetized.

Re: Select ready-made plans expiring May 21

lukealex121 — Tue, 21 May 2019 15:54:43 GMT

I’ve always found that 4G LTE is very expensive with very little noticeable speed difference. I suppose they charge more for it to “set it apart” from 3G, but personally I don’t see how it makes much of a difference for PM cost wise, or users speed wise.

Re: Select ready-made plans expiring May 21

mh1983 — Tue, 21 May 2019 17:29:39 GMT

@Dunkman wrote:
@Alan_K
Thanks for the update.

Compared to the $15 and $25 "promo" plans, those remaining plans don't provide much value. Good to get rid of those plans.

Don't always agree w/ the recent plan changes but these changes make sense. Nice way to clean house a bit!

Re: Select ready-made plans expiring May 21

kselmak — Tue, 21 May 2019 18:52:02 GMT

I was actually wandering if anybody is on data only 20 plan since introduction of 15 plan

That plan would be great for $10 as it's enough to have Fongo always running maybe some other voip providers too but most of them would drain more than 250. Fongo was the only one i saw claiming you can stay under 200 with moderate use. I never tested it really. Textnow is using about that for pretty much standby, i think i sent 3 texts received 2 and made 4 calls (3 of them pure 2 sec test) and it's at about 180 (2/3into the cycle)

I'm curious what price would people like for province wide talk only.

Re: Select ready-made plans expiring May 21

Anonymous — Tue, 21 May 2019 18:57:55 GMT

While that $20 province-wide/texting is gone now, I'd still like to see a *promo* offer of $10 for province-wide and unlimited texting. Or maybe unlimited texting with autopay. Opens up the up-sell to the ld and data add-ons.

I keep dreaming 🙂

Re: Select ready-made plans expiring May 21

Psygineer — Tue, 21 May 2019 21:28:17 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
While that $20 province-wide/texting is gone now, I'd still like to see a *promo* offer of $10 for province-wide and unlimited texting. Or maybe unlimited texting with autopay. Opens up the up-sell to the ld and data add-ons.
I keep dreaming 🙂

The $20 Province wide plan didn't have texting. My folks use that plan. I have to say if they came back with a province wide with texting for $10 I would switch them to that for sure! Ultimate plan for them would be the $25 plan for $20 without the data option. (Canada Wide + Unlimited text)

Re: Select ready-made plans expiring May 21

LovesToPM — Wed, 22 May 2019 04:34:56 GMT

@Alan_K, Note that these 2 plans

$20 for Unlimited Province-Wide Talk
$47 for 2 GB at 4G LTE speed

are still available under "Build your own plan" @ https://www.publicmobile.ca/en/bc/plans

Re: Select ready-made plans expiring May 21

LovesToPM — Wed, 22 May 2019 04:35:21 GMT

Good housekeeping idea. Getting rid of "obsolete" and "unneeded" plans, I am hoping this will help simplify the backend processes and result in less service interruptions for the newer plans.

Re: Select ready-made plans expiring May 21

dna2016 — Wed, 22 May 2019 14:43:56 GMT

@Alan_K smart move. The $20 data only plan is not very competitive at all and I'm sure very few purchased it, and those that did probably assumed there was talk or text included even though it clearly says "data only".

The $20 talk only plan is pretty useless not that there's more minutes available in that $15 plan. But even before hand, I'm sure there are very few people who need unlimited talk with no text.

And as expected another 4G LTE plan is leaving. Guess that's part of the PM corporate plan to be a 3G network and if people want more then they'll need to move to the parent/sister companies for that. And 2GB at that price isn't very competitive either.

Re: Select ready-made plans expiring May 21

zork1984 — Wed, 22 May 2019 18:50:10 GMT

Looking at the new ready made plan line-up, it now appears that the $35 plan provides little more than $25, yet it is $10 more... may be the next step is move the $40 and $50 plans down a notch to be $35 and $45 plans. I can only dream 🙂

Re: Select ready-made plans expiring May 21

geopublic — Wed, 22 May 2019 18:55:50 GMT

@zork1984 wrote:
Looking at the new ready made plan line-up, it now appears that the $35 plan provides little more than $25, yet it is $10 more... may be the next step is move the $40 and $50 plans down a notch to be $35 and $45 plans. I can only dream 🙂

$30.00 for Unlimited Canada wide calling/ International texts and 1.5 GB Data + 500 MB Bonus (AutoPay).

Re: Select ready-made plans expiring May 21

Psygineer — Wed, 22 May 2019 21:29:39 GMT

@dna2016 wrote:

The $20 talk only plan is pretty useless not that there's more minutes available in that $15 plan. But even before hand, I'm sure there are very few people who need unlimited talk with no text.

My parents don't need data/text at all, but unlimited talk is great for them. Unlimited Canada-wide talk with no data and no text would be ideal for them. Text I would accept as a nice perk, but not something they would want to pay extra for (say the $25 plan). They don't like texting, "text is too small to read" or else inflated so much that only a couple of words fit on the screen and too hard for them to type on the tiny letters. Can't use a big phone (LG G Flex), arthritis makes it too hard to hold and makes them drop it, so they have to use the small Lumia 650 I had. They are seniors so every penny they can squeeze the better due to their low pension income. I support them the best I can.

Best guess, the plain talk plans are great for those that don't have the best eyes or the finger dexterity of the youth. I mean yes, the $15 plan might work for them, but having a cap on minutes would make my mother terribly worried about her call lengths. Right now she can call her sister or her sister can call her and they might talk for 2-3 hours. Can't really do that on a 100 minute cap. I mean I could see it being something like my mother [dials her sister] "Call me" [click] then wait for her sister to call her back so she has unlimited talk time, but that seems annoying, especially if she forgets she initiated the call and suddenly out of minutes an hour later.

The texting option though would still be beneficial, even if they have trouble reading/typing, they would be able to get authentication authorizations that way, and I also would be able to send them a text rather than calling to let them know I am coming to pick them up.

Re: Select ready-made plans expiring May 21

cavemantoronto — Thu, 23 May 2019 01:59:36 GMT

If they expired these plans without announcing, it could have taken days before anyone noticed. The $20 data and $20 talk plans are poor. Who would take them over the $15 or $25 plan?

Re: Select ready-made plans expiring May 21

pm-smayer97 — Thu, 23 May 2019 14:00:20 GMT

Exactly... and with these changes, some of the other plans just do not make sense anymore either:

- $25 for 1GB data + unlt d talk & text (with AutoPay)

but then pay an extra $10 (or $35) for just an extra 500GB (total 1.5GB)

- but then the next plan for at extra $5 (or $40) gives you an extra 2.5GB (total 5GB)?

Then there is a HUGE gap but for another $10 (or $50) you can an additional 3.5GB (total 8.5GB).

That $35 plan does not make a lot of sense anymore either.

Re: Select ready-made plans expiring May 21

pm-smayer97 — Thu, 23 May 2019 14:43:00 GMT

I also do not understand why PM continues to have build-your-own plans with identical prices points as pre-made plans with less features. Either re-price them as is, re-design them be different with a non-overlapping feature set, re-design them to match the pre-made plans with the same pricing so it does not matter whether you select them from above or in the build-your-own plan section, or simply remove the overlapping plans at the same price point.

It just makes things very confusing. otherwise.