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Kodoo bought out Pioneer plans?

Litvinau_A — Wed, 05 Jan 2022 06:24:14 GMT

One of my parent is on old Pioneer plan. Today so]meone from Kodoo called and said they need some papers to be signed at the store, though we get to keep the plan.

Is this a real thing?

Re: Kodoo bought out Pioneer plans?

ShawnC13 — Thu, 22 Dec 2016 03:50:17 GMT

It is a real thing that is an OPTION for legacy customers that were from PM Had kiosks, Select Koodo retailers can contact select PM Legacy customers and offer them the option to go to Koodo with the same plan and still have access to a kiosk or store customer Service. Here is the post from Cat_L on the subject

http://productioncommunity.publicmobile.ca/t5/Discussions/I-received-this-email-from-Koodo-on-some-nonsense-thing-in-my/m-p/123395#M39701

Re: Kodoo bought out Pioneer plans?

Luddite — Thu, 22 Dec 2016 03:52:02 GMT

It's an "offer" not a requirement, you can ignore it: read through this thread to Cat_L's post for PM's official position.

http://productioncommunity.publicmobile.ca/t5/Discussions/Calls-about-forced-switch-from-Public/m-p/124770/highlight/true

Re: Kodoo bought out Pioneer plans?

ShawnC13 — Thu, 22 Dec 2016 03:53:32 GMT

@Luddite great post!!

Re: Kodoo bought out Pioneer plans?

Luddite — Thu, 22 Dec 2016 03:55:16 GMT

@ShawnC13 wrote:
@Luddite great post!!

Just trying catch up to you!

Re: Kodoo bought out Pioneer plans?

kav2001c — Thu, 22 Dec 2016 04:45:39 GMT

I wouldn't do it

Koodo has overages unlike your Public plan

(and no rewards either but for legacy clients a non-issue)

Re: Kodoo bought out Pioneer plans?

computergeek541 — Thu, 22 Dec 2016 06:09:46 GMT

If the plans are the same at Koodo and everything is working okay for you at Public, I'm not sure why anyone would actually make this switch. Being on prepaid is actually a good thing, in my opinion. There's no possible lowering of your credit score (credit seeking) because of the credit check, and as kav mentioned, no overages at Public Mobile.

The only plus I could for the customer would be the ability to use a Koodo tab if you want a new phone.

Re: Kodoo bought out Pioneer plans?

daredogg — Thu, 22 Dec 2016 12:08:57 GMT

kav2001c wrote:
Koodo has overages unlike your Public plan
(and no rewards either but for legacy clients a non-issue)

Koodo has their 'shock-free' data that shuts off when limit has been reached. Currently they have a $40 deal for 500MB + 500MB bonus. For the casual data user (like me), the deal is on par with PM (because it includes 1000 minutes of international LD), but for a heavy data user, definitely not recommended.

Re: Kodoo bought out Pioneer plans?

Rockdaddy22 — Thu, 22 Dec 2016 12:27:02 GMT

I would do it, IF I didn't have any rewards.

Re: Kodoo bought out Pioneer plans?

daredogg — Thu, 22 Dec 2016 12:42:58 GMT

I agree, that the rewards make it more desirable to stay with PM. Since you've been here more than a year @Rockdaddy22 are you now getting your extra $1 loyalty reward?

Re: Kodoo bought out Pioneer plans?

Rockdaddy22 — Thu, 22 Dec 2016 12:43:24 GMT

Yes I am 🤑

Re: Kodoo bought out Pioneer plans?

kav2001c — Thu, 22 Dec 2016 16:46:21 GMT

@daredogg wrote:
Koodo has their 'shock-free' data that shuts off when limit has been reached. Currently they have a $40 deal for 500MB + 500MB bonus. For the casual data user (like me), the deal is on par with PM (because it includes 1000 minutes of international LD), but for a heavy data user, definitely not recommended.

@daredogg shock free lets you exceed data without sticker shock

EG if your plan is $10 for each additional GB, then if you go over (within their tolerance level, say 20MB) they show you went over and do not bill you for it

They also are pretty handy with txt notifications

But Koodo does NOT shut your data off

They charge you for the overages once you have used the tolerance amount

Re: Kodoo bought out Pioneer plans?

makkahn28 — Fri, 23 Dec 2016 06:03:08 GMT

I received an email on this, I find Koodo's Poaching to be well, insulting. Why switch, and for what? There's always the hidden fees and such.Just look at him, he's not happy either, that's why he had to make a collect call to figure out why

Re: Kodoo bought out Pioneer plans?

daredogg — Fri, 23 Dec 2016 15:13:40 GMT

Thanks @kav2001c for the info about Koodo! My parents are with them, but they don't use much data (have never exceeded their limit anyway) so I wouldn't of known how it works. So thanks!!

Re: Kodoo bought out Pioneer plans?

kav2001c — Sat, 24 Dec 2016 01:46:33 GMT

@daredogg from best to worst at handling data overages:

1- Koodo

2- Fido

3- Virgin

Bell always seems the most money hungry don't they