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Why Public Mobile?

Ed404 — Wed, 05 Jan 2022 14:38:29 GMT

Hey,

How did you discover Public Mobile?
Why did you choose Public Mobile?
If you had a previous provider what were your reasons for switching to Public Mobile?

Re: Why Public Mobile?

mimmo — Mon, 04 Nov 2019 01:10:22 GMT

1) Google

2) save money

3) saving money

Re: Why Public Mobile?

Dunkman — Mon, 04 Nov 2019 01:40:29 GMT

Redflagdeal forum

Cheaper prices with Telus/Bell coverage/reception

Fido increased my prices and could not match Public mobile prices. Funny thing is that if Fido did not increase the price, I would have stayed with Fido. Over time, moved another line over to Public mobile.

Re: Why Public Mobile?

tsparkle21 — Mon, 04 Nov 2019 01:58:37 GMT

1. There is a site that compares plans. Under pre-paids, the 3 most popular are Public Mobile, Chatr and Lucky.

2. $15 plan is really $13 with Auto-Pay, unlimited incoming calls, unlimited international text are features that stand out.

3. I am still on Fido as well as I have good perks for being there a while, but I needed other lines for family members.

Re: Why Public Mobile?

cellphoneuser1 — Mon, 04 Nov 2019 02:00:41 GMT

Cheap plans

Isn't that why for almost everybody?

Re: Why Public Mobile?

Luddite — Mon, 04 Nov 2019 02:01:50 GMT

How: saw a store advertising PM and then read up onine (2014)

Why: best price

Reason to switch: savings in a year paid for new iPhone

Re: Why Public Mobile?

cellphoneuser1 — Mon, 04 Nov 2019 02:02:39 GMT

You mean that Whistleout site? Speakout and Freedom would be compared for prepaid too.

Re: Why Public Mobile?

AE_Collector — Mon, 04 Nov 2019 02:23:17 GMT

Am a retired Telus employee. They came up with a special cell phone deal for us retirees about 5 years ago. $40 unlimited Canada calling, unlimited texting, 1 Gb of LTE data and $300 towards a new phone every 24 months. That wasn't a screaming deal but was as good as it gets at the time. But over the last 5 years nothing changed with the retirees plan and no option for more data though it was only 2c per extra Mb beyond the included 1Gb but $20 a Gb still isn't great.

Not wanting to leave TELUS I started looking around and basically got same plan less the new phone credit for $23. I stretch a phone out to the bitter end so not worth paying extra for the credit when it might be 5 years before I cash in.

Here is my landline phone. It still has lots of life left in it as well....

Re: Why Public Mobile?

computergeek541 — Mon, 04 Nov 2019 02:43:02 GMT

I knew about Public Mobile since its days of being an independent expansion carrier. For me, I was with Wind Mobile, and really me leaving them didn't have as much to do with Public Mobile's offerings, but rather with how bad the Wind network was at the time. I was paying $35/month for a plan with talk, text, and 5GB of data, yet that wasn't enough for them to keep me as a cutstomer. When Public Mobile came out with the Fall Promo plan, I figured that I would only really be losing 1GB of non-throttled data and only paying $5 more. In return, I would get use of a network that actually worked.

Re: Why Public Mobile?

ShawnC13 — Mon, 04 Nov 2019 03:05:52 GMT

A friend told me about it
Cheaper more data and an opportunity to lower my bill with rewards
I was with Rogers on a family share plan with 2.5GB of data for around $111 a month. I moved my wife and me over to the fall promo and we each got 4GB for $38 for 30 days (Breaking fall promo data and cost with autopay reward down to 30 days for comparison)

Re: Why Public Mobile?

nightbrad — Mon, 04 Nov 2019 03:09:16 GMT

A friend recommended it after I was griping about paying 100$ a month for my cell bill.

The gouging and non stop price increAses causes me to leave. Never again!

Re: Why Public Mobile?

Ed404 — Mon, 04 Nov 2019 03:16:19 GMT

The $15 plan has 100 minutes, why is unlimited incoming calls an advertised feature don't all services offer this?

Re: Why Public Mobile?

cellphoneuser1 — Mon, 04 Nov 2019 04:42:33 GMT

No, they don't.

Re: Why Public Mobile?

AE_Collector — Mon, 04 Nov 2019 04:46:27 GMT

Well, all existing PM plans other than the $15 plan have unlimited incoming calls (and unlimited outgoing calls too). When they launched the $15 plan it had 100 minutes combined in and out calls but they then changed it to unlimited incoming and 100 outgoing.

AE_Collector

Re: Why Public Mobile?

Ed404 — Mon, 04 Nov 2019 05:06:28 GMT

Thanks I had no idea. The more you know.

Re: Why Public Mobile?

DL888 — Mon, 04 Nov 2019 13:16:14 GMT

How did you discover Public Mobile? doing my HW before deciding.
Why did you choose Public Mobile? value and rewards
If you had a previous provider what were your reasons for switching to Public Mobile? price and value.

Re: Why Public Mobile?

will13am — Mon, 04 Nov 2019 15:03:47 GMT

1) Discovered it online. They were just ending their SIM swap promo where you can swap something useless for a free SIM card. Got a free SIM card and a SIM swap t-shirt.

2) I was a disgruntled Wind customer at the time. The 2016 fall promo had just rolled out. It was a screaming hot deal compared to other in market plans and deals. The rewards have made staying a very easy decision.

3) See answer 2 above.

Re: Why Public Mobile?

Triguy — Mon, 04 Nov 2019 15:09:53 GMT

1) Google

2) Offered a data only plan.

3) Other provider didn't offer data only add-on and didn't want to switch plan to get data.

Re: Why Public Mobile?

Lonetreejim — Mon, 04 Nov 2019 16:00:06 GMT

My family had been with Rogers for years and years on a share data plan. Two phones were on a grandfathered BYOD $30/mth plan and the other 3 were on "normal" big 3 rates. I was paying $3,932/yr.

When I moved into the country I found I was on Rogers EXT all the time when I was in the house. My neighbor, on Bell, always has 3 bars but I was just a tad reluctant to go to Bell (bad past experiences).

My brother told me about Public Mobile.

I did the research and determined that PM used Bell towers when Telus was not close by. I calculated that I could save $1,707/yr on PM and have 20GB of data (instead of the 10 GB I had with Rogers).

It was a no brainer. I bought 5 SIM cards, transferred all the numbers (which automatically killed my Rogers account) and have lived happily ever after. And because PM has no telephone customer support I haven't been lied to once since I switched (tongue-in-cheek).

Re: Why Public Mobile?

Lar — Mon, 04 Nov 2019 16:49:17 GMT

1. First time I ever heard of PM was a discussion at a motorcycle forum where I'm a member, then heard PM mentioned again by a relative.

2. I chose PM because of the $10 plan to give it a try with not much to lose. Still here and very happy.

3. Previously with Bell-hell who just kept putting the price up and up without notice until I'd finally had enough.

I've been with PM less than a year and already saved enough to pay for the new phone I bought when I started here.

Great community, Cheers