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What are Public Mobile's plans once 5G arrives in the next few years.

WoozyPolarBear — Wed, 05 Jan 2022 13:56:47 GMT

Just wondering what will happen with Public Mobile's plans once 5G speeds arrive in Canada in 2021 and beyond? Since Public Mobile is a budget focused brand, will we still be getting 3G speeds, or do you think everyone will jump up a notch. For Example, Telus users get mirgrated up to 5G plans, and Public Mobile users will upgrade to 4G LTE, still one speed gerneration below the current max.

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mimmo — Tue, 17 Sep 2019 09:27:04 GMT

It will probably depend on What chatr an lucky do. To be honest I don't see 5g or full 4g coming here for a long while if ever. This is the 3rd tier brand so don't expect much in terms of innovation. You will probably see migration offers to koodo first which I believe is the ultimate objective.

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WoozyPolarBear — Tue, 17 Sep 2019 09:29:32 GMT

Probably all true. But to be honest, Public Mobile will have to somewhat keep up with the newer technology. In 10 years from now, 3Mbps speed will be the equivalent as having a cassette tape deck in a new car.

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brid0nca — Tue, 17 Sep 2019 12:00:48 GMT

Just slap a 5G label on it, and you are good. It was already done with throttled LTE, and calling it 3G.

5G advantages are only going to be good in congested areas. In the rest of the country, LTE willl have to do. Fortunately, there is a lot of LTE bandwidth bought to cover that, just not in really dense areas when 5G will be a boon.

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DL888 — Tue, 17 Sep 2019 12:02:15 GMT

Wait and see....I guess

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darlicious — Tue, 17 Sep 2019 12:10:20 GMT

@WoozyPolarBear wrote:
Probably all true. But to be honest, Public Mobile will have to somewhat keep up with the newer technology. In 10 years from now, 3Mbps speed will be the equivalent as having a cassette tape deck in a new car.

Telus still supplies 8-track wifi speed and thinks its ok so i dont see an upgrade anytime soon. Almost 2 1/2 hours on the phone the other day fixing the WiFi from 0.4 mbps back up to 50mbps to wake up yesterday and it's back down to 2.1mbps.....

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Triguy — Tue, 17 Sep 2019 12:12:39 GMT

4G speeds will actually get faster as more people migrate to 5G allowing more bandwidth. It will take several years for 5G infrastructure to be built as more small cells are needed. It is hard to say if PM will offer 5G being a third tier provider. They may transition to more 4G plans instead of moving to 5G.

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WoozyPolarBear — Tue, 17 Sep 2019 12:14:27 GMT

@Triguy wrote:
4G speeds will actually get faster as more people migrate to 5G allowing more bandwidth. It will take several years for 5G infrastructure to be built as more small cells are needed. It is hard to say if PM will offer 5G being a third tier provider. They may transition to more 4G plans instead of moving to 5G.

That's what I was getting at. When 5G arrives, that's when I think Public Mobile would upgrade the speeds from 3G to 4G LTE. Being a discount brand, and staying one tier below the fastest speeds.

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frankieshi — Tue, 17 Sep 2019 15:02:39 GMT

Need to get a 5G phone first...

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AE_Collector — Tue, 17 Sep 2019 15:58:15 GMT

Since PM is really LTE but throttled to 3Mb per second, eventually they may bump the throttle speed up somewhat and may even call it 4G/LTE like speeds! Just as many/most PM customers see LTE on their screen now, some will begin to see 5G on their phone screen once it begins to roll out and if their phone is 5G capable. That won’t change the 3Mb per second cap until the decision is made by TELUS that PM will be at some new higher speed. Eventually this is bound to happen but no one knows if or when.

Terry

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jor123 — Wed, 18 Sep 2019 16:06:03 GMT

Hopefully PM won't be left completely behind...

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Stirfiro — Sat, 21 Sep 2019 23:47:59 GMT

@mimmo wrote:
You will probably see migration offers to koodo first which I believe is the ultimate objective.

I wouldn't consider that the 'ultimate objective' anymore, since Koodo doesn't offer much for reasonable roaming plans. That was the main reason that I switched from Koodo to Public. Kind of hard to beat PM's 8.5 + 2gb roaming package.

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Korth — Mon, 23 Sep 2019 06:24:49 GMT

"The future is friendly. " - Telus

5G has already arrived. Sort of. In some places.

I think Public Mobile will always offer basic, lower-tier Data service. But I'm guessing they'll assign maximal performance caps which will always be *just barely* adequate to deliver minimum QoS for essential/common Data communications. Apple and Google and Facebook and the internet keep inventing ever-larger bloat and more sneaky telemetry/background leaks, devices and networks have to invent ever-denser technologies to keep consumers paying for the "need" to access all that Data in their pockets.

I'm also guessing the "3G" moniker will be dropped. It already causes confusion with how it relates to the Telus family of 4G technologies, it'll cause even more confusion when people start bantering 5G around. They were never really about accurate technical categories anyhow, they're marketing labells.

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sheytoon — Mon, 23 Sep 2019 21:18:53 GMT

@Korth wrote:
5G has already arrived. Sort of. In some places.

Not yet in Canada. Mostly in US and Korea, with smaller deployments in other countries.

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Korth — Tue, 24 Sep 2019 00:33:01 GMT

https://www.telus.com/en/about/news-and-events/media-releases/successful-5g-pilot-places-canada-at-the-forefront-of-global-wireless

(And this article is already almost two years old.)

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jor123 — Tue, 24 Sep 2019 00:35:37 GMT

But when things like wifi calling and voice over LTE still aren't available on Public Mobile or Telus/Koodo phones outside of a limited list, how soon could we realistically ever expect 5G...

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sheytoon — Tue, 24 Sep 2019 00:58:32 GMT

@Korth wrote:
https://www.telus.com/en/about/news-and-events/media-releases/successful-5g-pilot-places-canada-at-the-forefront-of-global-wireless

(And this article is already almost two years old.)

I remember that demo. It was a pre-standard demo with a prototype "phone" using spectrum that is (still today) not licensed for commercial deployment in Canada.

The very first 3GPP standards for 5G NR were frozen in December 2017. This was done a few months before that.

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cavemantoronto — Tue, 24 Sep 2019 03:38:03 GMT

Nothing will happen in short term. Public is slow to change. It doesn't matter because it's not available yet. Public doesn't wany customers to have LTE so why would 5g change anything?

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WoozyPolarBear — Tue, 24 Sep 2019 03:56:10 GMT

I personally believe 5G is going to be a major flop, and more hype than anything. Apparently, you can't have anything obstructing a 5G signal, not even your hand while holding the phone. 5G also has a tiny range. I really think 5G is just going to be overblown full of hype and used solely as a means to raise consumer plan prices.