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An Open Letter to the Community

darlicious — Wed, 05 Jan 2022 16:38:35 GMT

To my fellow community members,

Here I am freshly sprung from community jail.....a ban from the community as I have been accused of being xenophobic. As a result I will apologise to anyone from the community including @Tiana_V @Alan_K and @Oana_S who felt my comments to @agai11nst were xenophobic or racist in anyway. This was not my intent in any way shape or form. I constantly comment on the need for inclusiveness in the community and the diversity that stems from it. I was raised to believe in multiculturalism being the backbone of canadian society. My family actively helps sponsor and resettle refugee families in smaller communities in this country. To be accused of this was quite the shock but as i try to choose my words very carefully when i post i do recognize the mistake i made in my post.

After reading several posts by this member that were disparaging, insulting and generally nasty towards public mobile, it's customers, the community and its members and accused us of being in on the corporate greed of the big three and basically the entire canadian mobile provider industry. I felt the need to defend the community and public mobile. In my comment I suggested if @agai11nst was that unhappy with public mobiles prices they could switch to another canadian mobile provider. Since they had complained they were all the same I suggested.....this was my mistake.....they move to another country that have much cheaper mobile data rates......i don't know anything about this member so I was not suggesting anything other than an over the top suggestion on how to get a mobile data plan that would be cheap enough (since public mobiles plans were still to expensive) to satisfy this members needs. I chose the country with the cheapest mobile data rates in the world instead I probably should left above graph and let them choose from the list so as to be inclusive of all nations offering cheaper mobile data rates than Canada.

I understand that @agai11nst was upset and venting and after cooling down apologised the next day and that happens on the community a lot and we understand. I hope the community can understand that in defending public mobile my intent was misunderstood and I apologise for that. Going forward I will triple check my posts for any possibility that it may offend anyone for any reason because as we all know the community is inclusive and we must be as pc and pg as possible. I hope the community can understand my original intent and not see me as being xenophobic individual as that is far from who I am.

darlicious

Re: An Open Letter to the Community

Luddite — Mon, 13 Apr 2020 18:12:07 GMT

@darlicious Your UK data is incorrect; latest pricing is $0.41/GB!! 😮

https://www.giffgaff.com/sim-only-plans 80GB for £20.

BTW: is this not more appropriately a Lounge topic?

Re: An Open Letter to the Community

will13am — Mon, 13 Apr 2020 19:08:19 GMT

@Luddite wrote:
@darlicious Your UK data is incorrect; latest pricing is $0.41/GB!! 😮
https://www.giffgaff.com/sim-only-plans 80GB for £20.

BTW: is this not more appropriately a Lounge topic?

Under the circumstances, it is fair for this to be in the front pages. There is no willful intent to benefit "from the proceeds of crime" so to speak. Forfeiture not required.

Re: An Open Letter to the Community

mpcdesign — Mon, 13 Apr 2020 19:29:52 GMT

@darlicious, sorry to hear that you were sent to the "Go to Jail" corner. I do applaud you for taking the time and penning a sincere apology to everyone in the community, moderators and @agai11nst.

I took a break from Public Mobile that day, so, I can't say my two cents here as much, and I choose not to go back in reading what everyone wrote.

But overall, I know for a fact that @darlicious isn't xenophobic or racist in any way. She has a kind heart and warming smile that brings smiles to your face and laughter to light the room.

*Note: I was wondering why she was no longer number #2 in the bravo board?

Re: An Open Letter to the Community

Naepalm — Mon, 13 Apr 2020 19:39:36 GMT

@darlicious This letter speaks to your character and I can see my friend you do have good character. To come out and apologize and explain yourself take a lot of gumption and should not be taken lightly. I look forward to conversing and helping alongside you in the future.

Have a great Monday!

Re: An Open Letter to the Community

AE_Collector — Tue, 14 Apr 2020 01:41:22 GMT

@Luddite

The chart shown says it is a survey of over 6000 cell plans in 200+ countries. I am assuming your figure for UK is one particular plan, not the average cost in UK. For that matter Canada isn't correct. We know we can get 8.5Gb for $48 or $6 Cdn not $12 US per the chart. And the big guys offered something like 20Gb for was it $75 at one point or maybe it was $95... Can't recall now. But, you get it, the chart isn't showing the lowest cost data but the average cost per Gb of data in each company.

AE_Collector

Re: An Open Letter to the Community

Luddite — Tue, 14 Apr 2020 01:42:18 GMT

@AE_Collector UK provider Smarty offers 1000 GB for £20. 😲

Re: An Open Letter to the Community

AE_Collector — Tue, 14 Apr 2020 02:12:15 GMT

Well, that Does warrant a WoW!

AE_Collector

Re: An Open Letter to the Community

Pawprints1986 — Tue, 14 Apr 2020 06:23:15 GMT

I definitely missed some drama around here! So nice of you to clarify though

Also regarding the data prices in other countries... 😱

Re: An Open Letter to the Community

agai11nst — Wed, 09 Mar 2022 20:06:28 GMT

True many many countries except the monopolic system we are forced to use have way better rates and fees for mobile use. Look at this; one big one buying another big one... guess who lose on this?! Customers/Users!!!

https://openmedia.org/article/item/your-voice-delivered-openmedias-latest-petition-to-stop-rogers-from-buying-shaw-is-in

Re: An Open Letter to the Community

darlicious — Wed, 09 Mar 2022 21:00:05 GMT

@agai11nst

Wow... this thread is a blast from the past and the beginning of a tumultuous 6 months in the community for myself and a few others....and here I thought this all a distant memory. Lol..live and learn I guess.

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Re: An Open Letter to the Community

softech — Wed, 09 Mar 2022 21:18:53 GMT

@darlicious We know PM made the right decision to bring you back. You are not just any member here but you have done a lot for the Community. Those extra work won't earn you extra rewards but just for the benefit of the Community. We are all glad you are still here 🙂

I was looking at the chart. was it even correct? First time I heard Canadians are paying less than our American friends for mobile data ... really?

Re: An Open Letter to the Community

darlicious — Wed, 09 Mar 2022 21:18:44 GMT

@softech

Aw shucks! Thank you!

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Re: An Open Letter to the Community

ShawnC13 — Thu, 10 Mar 2022 00:03:47 GMT

@softech that data is from 2019 also.