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New Plans Starting Today

computergeek541 — Wed, 05 Jan 2022 18:23:24 GMT

Today, I noticed that are updated non-regional plans available.

Changes:

$35 plan now includes 2GB +500MB (autopay bonus)

$40 plan now only has 4GB + 500MB (autopay bonus)

New (recycled) $45 plan with 6GB + 500MB (autopay bonus)

I'm not at all impressed. The $45 plan can be compared to $35 plan as most people will simply go for the higher option and it just adds yet another unnecessary plan. The $35 plan still isn't good enough being overpriced/not having enough data. Then, the $40 plan had it's data amount lowered to make the $35 and $45 plan artificially look better. Why, Public?

Re: New Plans Starting Today

darlicious — Tue, 29 Sep 2020 14:54:24 GMT

Well now all the higher priced data plans are evenly spaced so you dont save any real money by choosing more data in your plan. Thats a bit of a weird strategy but feqjitable i suppose. Now all plans $35+ for five bucks more you get 2gb of plan data.

Re: New Plans Starting Today

computergeek541 — Tue, 29 Sep 2020 15:12:05 GMT

@darlicious The $35 plan is still going to be least popular and provide the least value for the money as taking the $40 plan instead still has a very high increase in the amount of data included, percentage-wise.

Re: New Plans Starting Today

will13am — Tue, 29 Sep 2020 15:21:27 GMT

In recent times, the competitor brands have all come out with what I see as well priced big gig plans for those who use a lot of data. Even before this happened, I found that Public Mobile was only competitive for the lower usage plans, simply because those using lots of data would have little tolerance for the heavily throttled data. I have always advocated that customers should show loyalty to their own wallet first and foremost.

Re: New Plans Starting Today

darlicious — Tue, 29 Sep 2020 15:54:16 GMT

@computergeek541

If you use the $15 plan as a base plan then plan data works out as follows:

$15 plan $12/1gb $3/250mb*
$25 plan $10/1gb
$35 plan $8/1gb
$40 plan $5.55/1gb
$45 plan $4.61/1gb
$50 plan $4.11/1gb

*based on purchasing the $15/1gb data add on YMMV

Re: New Plans Starting Today

dude65 — Tue, 29 Sep 2020 16:01:43 GMT

@will13am .....exactly

People shopping for plans will look for what gets them the most bang for the buck. PM has a decent reward system if your going to stay long term with PM.

Re: New Plans Starting Today

darlicious — Tue, 29 Sep 2020 16:07:38 GMT

Actually these new plans have made the $15 "plan builder" much more attractive data wise if you are a low but varied data user. By averaging monthly use at 750mb and rolling over 500mb each cycle the data price lowers itself to $10/1gb every 4 months.

Re: New Plans Starting Today

popping — Tue, 29 Sep 2020 16:05:47 GMT

WOW. Plan adjustment without at least half a day notice.

I downgraded my $40 plan two weeks ago in order to use the extra data add-on. Right after my last renewal, I scheduled switching back to the old $40 5GB plan with autopay. That was good insurance against PM from adjusting plan while on a downgraded plan. Over 2 years on this community forum allows me to use this trick to protect my wallet.

But I don't know whether I will get back the 5GB version or not until after my next renewal. The schedule plan change shows that I am switching to a $40 plan and does not show the details.

Future Dated Plan Changes

Your base Plan will switch to 30-day plan ( $40 ) on Oct ??, 2020

Re: New Plans Starting Today

darlicious — Tue, 29 Sep 2020 16:09:10 GMT

@popping

You scheduled it before the change you should be grandfathered in...

Re: New Plans Starting Today

Anonymous — Tue, 29 Sep 2020 16:11:21 GMT

@popping

From past experience, scheduling a plan change using a currently available plan reserves that plan even if it disappears after you scheduled it/before you renew on it. I know this from the days that the $10 plan was being tossed around and I was testing playing around with the $15 plan but kept that $10 plan on reserve. Then it DID drop and I just went to it anyway.

Re: New Plans Starting Today

popping — Tue, 29 Sep 2020 16:30:49 GMT

@darlicious wrote:
@computergeek541
If you use the $15 plan as a base plan then plan data works out as follows:
$15 plan $12/1gb $3/250mb*
$25 plan $10/1gb
$35 plan $8/1gb
$40 plan $5.55/1gb
$45 plan $4.61/1gb
$50 plan $4.11/1gb
*based on purchasing the $15/1gb data add on YMMV

The cost/1GB is not correct unless I misunderstand what your are saying.

The new $40 plan has 4.5GB data.

Therefore, using the $15 plan as base to build a 4,25GB data per 30 days, the 30 days cost will be $15 base + 4 * $15 = $75 for 4.25GB data. ($17.64/1GB)

Correct me if I am wrong.

Re: New Plans Starting Today

computergeek541 — Tue, 29 Sep 2020 16:51:47 GMT

@popping wrote:
@darlicious wrote:
@computergeek541
If you use the $15 plan as a base plan then plan data works out as follows:
$15 plan $12/1gb $3/250mb*
$25 plan $10/1gb
$35 plan $8/1gb
$40 plan $5.55/1gb
$45 plan $4.61/1gb
$50 plan $4.11/1gb
*based on purchasing the $15/1gb data add on YMMV
The cost/1GB is not correct unless I misunderstand what your are saying.

The new $40 plan has 4.5GB data.
Therefore, using the $15 plan as base to build a 4,25GB data per 30 days, the 30 days cost will be $15 base + 4 * $15 = $75 for 4.25GB data. ($17.64/1GB)

Correct me if I am wrong.

I wouldn't just say that the talk and text components are worth $15. To some people, those are worth nothing. In addition, you can't just buy 1GB for $10 or $8. That would also ignore that you must pay that base $15. In any event, whether or not one wishes to exclude that 250MB in the calculations for the other plans, if you're going to exclude $15 in the price of data for all other plans, you also have to exclude it for the $15 plan and say that the price is $0/GB as nothing extra is being paid on top of that $15 for the 250MB of included data.

Re: New Plans Starting Today

will13am — Tue, 29 Sep 2020 17:02:43 GMT

@darlicious wrote:
@computergeek541
If you use the $15 plan as a base plan then plan data works out as follows:
$15 plan $12/1gb $3/250mb*
$25 plan $10/1gb
$35 plan $8/1gb
$40 plan $5.55/1gb
$45 plan $4.61/1gb
$50 plan $4.11/1gb
*based on purchasing the $15/1gb data add on YMMV

I used to think this way about data cost. I am no longer using this approach. Data has a freshness date to it. We should not buy more than what is actually needed. To this end, people needing 5GB will be pushed into paying more. That is the bottom line. Keeping it simple, we have a $5 increase.

Re: New Plans Starting Today

will13am — Tue, 29 Sep 2020 18:13:28 GMT

@dude65 wrote:
@will13am .....exactly
People shopping for plans will look for what gets them the most bang for the buck. PM has a decent reward system if your going to stay long term with PM.

Agree 100%. My legacy plan at full price is no longer competitive but the rewards make it very competitive. It is hard to tell customers to be patient and leverage rewards. It takes time to earn loyalty rewards and pick up referrals. The need for immediate gratification is going to make for a tough uphill battle for this brand. But then again with a lack of competition in Canada, all the competitors will rally around price increases.

Re: New Plans Starting Today

BEER — Tue, 29 Sep 2020 18:55:02 GMT

@darlicious wrote:
@computergeek541
If you use the $15 plan as a base plan then plan data works out as follows:
$15 plan $12/1gb $3/250mb*
$25 plan $10/1gb
$35 plan $8/1gb
$40 plan $5.55/1gb
$45 plan $4.61/1gb
$50 plan $4.11/1gb
*based on purchasing the $15/1gb data add on YMMV

Yes makes sense BUT when you get Data on a plan doesn't roll over ----soooo unless a person uses all the data your calculation results would change. My opinion is that it best to keep a $15 plan and add on Data ( $15 for 1GB) . This way one would accumulate the un-used data and perhaps eventually for a future month additional date may not be required.

Re: New Plans Starting Today

gpixel — Tue, 29 Sep 2020 20:43:29 GMT

I guess the new plans are structured around the $35/2.5gb plan. they basically flatline the curve

40(+$5/2gb)
45(+$5/2gb)
50(+$5/2gb)

the $15 & $25 plans are for the lower data users. these two plans fit well with them.

*@Jb456 , but they beat Lucky's $35/2gb 🤏🤭

Re: New Plans Starting Today

Jb456 — Tue, 29 Sep 2020 20:38:56 GMT

So PM is playing follow the leader again with Lucky's plan changes 🙄

I guess the $45 for 6.5 gig one is to match Lucky's Quebec wide calling one.

Re: New Plans Starting Today

computergeek541 — Tue, 29 Sep 2020 20:47:59 GMT

@Jb456 Public's "new" $45 is the same as Chatr's. Don't be surprised if Lucky reduces their $40 plan to also include only 4.5GB (total). I believe that Public's next "competitive reponse" might be to put the $40 plan back to 4.5GB+500MB to match Lucky.

Re: New Plans Starting Today

Jb456 — Tue, 29 Sep 2020 20:58:05 GMT

@computergeek541 am I missing something here?

Lucky's $40 plan already beats PM.

PM - with autopay 4.5 gigs.

Lucky - with autopay 5 gigs.

EDIT - Nevermind @computergeek541 I re-read what you wrote

Re: New Plans Starting Today

Jb456 — Tue, 29 Sep 2020 21:14:07 GMT

@computergeek541 you know what I really think should be done. Instead of PM following all the time PM should just slash prices by a few dollars with more data. Problem solved.

$35 bucks 5 gigs simple as that and see if lucky follows.

All these small tweaks / adjustments probably end up costing more in the long run. 500mb here 500mb there. 1 buck here 1 buck there. Paying tech to do all these adjustments (Which seems to be almost on a weekly basis now) When tech could be devoting attention to the faulty auto-pay system.

Besides how many people (let's say out of 100 subscribers) actually max out their data every 30 days? I doubt not even half do. When I had 1gig data with PM I may have used 500mb in 30 days. Even now on the $15 plan I may have cleared my 250mb limit twice.

So all that extra data that everyone is paying for that is not used just adds up.