topic Re: Promotions in Get Support

Promotions

p1brownavery — Thu, 06 Jan 2022 08:50:55 GMT

Hi,

I saw that usually in December Public Mobile offers a 5GB bonus and 1 month free promotion for all plans $25+. I was wondering what the likelihood they would offer it again this year would be? Is this a pretty consistent promotion that time of month?

Thank you!

Re: Promotions

darlicious — Thu, 21 Oct 2021 14:43:43 GMT

@p1brownavery

It's been consistent the last 2 years. I would hope pm repeats those kind of promotions again this year.

Re: Promotions

LeePublic — Thu, 21 Oct 2021 15:00:25 GMT

@p1brownavery

A nice "gift" would be bumping all the plans up by 250 MB - 2 GB depending on the plan.

Yes, I remember even though I wasn't a PM member at the time. Who knows? They might have something new cooking by then.

Re: Promotions

0PX9O4 — Thu, 21 Oct 2021 14:59:15 GMT

A nice "gift" would be enabling VoLTE for all PM plans, so we can stop living in 2013.

Re: Promotions

softech — Thu, 21 Oct 2021 15:11:44 GMT

@0PX9O4 wrote:
A nice "gift" would be enabling VoLTE for all PM plans, so we can stop living in 2013.

I always think.. another possible gift for the VoLTE "fix" is to "upgrade" us all to Koodo, ie, closing down of PM.. LoL

Re: Promotions

darlicious — Thu, 21 Oct 2021 15:22:10 GMT

@softech

If you have a telus phone you might already have voLTE....as the bf discovered when he forgot to pay for his renewal but could still call out.

Re: Promotions

Yummy — Thu, 21 Oct 2021 15:54:32 GMT

@p1brownavery wrote:
Hi,
I saw that usually in December Public Mobile offers a 5GB bonus and 1 month free promotion for all plans $25+. I was wondering what the likelihood they would offer it

But this promo is for new customers only, correct? Existing might get some Christmas gifts and that is all?

Re: Promotions

Anonymous — Thu, 21 Oct 2021 16:01:30 GMT

@Yummy : There have been some very nice promos around Black Friday. Yes for new customers. The gifts are a different thing that may or may not happen.

Re: Promotions

darlicious — Thu, 21 Oct 2021 16:20:56 GMT

@Anonymous

Last year's black Friday sale was terrible! $5 off for 6 months $35+ plans?!!

Re: Promotions

Anonymous — Thu, 21 Oct 2021 16:28:30 GMT

@darlicious : I did say "there have been". 🙂 Ok last year not so good. 🙂

Re: Promotions

Meow — Thu, 21 Oct 2021 16:40:52 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
@darlicious : I did say "there have been". 🙂 Ok last year not so good. 🙂

I guess PM has solid user base for the time being so no need to attract new customers. People are signing with PM on a daily basis anyway.

These promos are similar to bank's interest rates: in the beginning they offer great promos for new (or current customers). Later on they all become the same... 😞

Any idea how many customers PM has?

Re: Promotions

0PX9O4 — Thu, 21 Oct 2021 16:47:05 GMT

@darlicious wrote:
@softech
If you have a telus phone you might already have voLTE....as the bf discovered when he forgot to pay for his renewal but could still call out.

AFAIK (and I too have a Telus phone) VoLTE is not enabled on PM. This matter has been discussed in the community a few times.

Re: Promotions

0PX9O4 — Thu, 21 Oct 2021 16:49:17 GMT

@softech wrote:
@0PX9O4 wrote:
A nice "gift" would be enabling VoLTE for all PM plans, so we can stop living in 2013.
I always think.. another possible gift for the VoLTE "fix" is to "upgrade" us all to Koodo, ie, closing down of PM.. LoL

Again, from previous discussions on this community, my impression was that VoLTE is not offered to any MVNO customers (meaning no VoLTE for Koodo customers either). Only Telus accounts are given VoLTE access (and even within Telus customers, I've heard lots of complaints of problems with configuring the devices)

Re: Promotions

AE_Collector — Thu, 21 Oct 2021 17:45:38 GMT

The last 2 or 3 Christmas seasons have had promotions beginning with the US Black Friday time frame and typically have had more incentives tacked on through the run up until about January 1. Starts out a bit “yawn” but then ramps up to a fairly decent incentive by sometime in December. I would say that the Black Friday to New Years time frame has been the best overall time to become a new customer with PM.

The last two Christmas seasons have brought free gifts (free add-ons) for all existing customers as well though you need to watch for the announcements here or the text messages they send out and then log in to accept the gifts. I am hopeful of a shake up this season with possibly the gifts being a bump up in data across all plans. But I may very well be dreaming. The constant 2GB (sort of) permanent bonus for new customers along with steady erosion of the savings by being with PM as compared to 1st and second tier Telus providers is what makes me think that this is due.

AE_Collector

Re: Promotions

darlicious — Thu, 21 Oct 2021 19:58:14 GMT

@0PX9O4

It's a quirk but you explain to me how a pm customer with suspended services was able to call out while at home on wifi?)

@Meow

300,000+?

Re: Promotions

0PX9O4 — Thu, 21 Oct 2021 22:01:12 GMT

@darlicious Voice over LTE has absolutely no connection with WiFi calling. More info here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice_over_LTE

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darlicious — Thu, 21 Oct 2021 22:28:38 GMT

@0PX9O4

I know the difference between wifi calling and voLTE. The bf has only the pre-installed phone app on his phone. When he called me and later a test call to a telus customer his pm phone number showed on call display. voLTE calling is enabled in his phone....glitch that it is the likely theory when I asked the community about it was that the provisioning for voLTE remains active on his phone.

Edit:

My apologies....you are correct. However it is required to have voLTE enabled in order to access wifi calling. I will make a note in the thread that I initially asked the question.

@Nezgar

You may find this of interest.

Re: Promotions

0PX9O4 — Thu, 21 Oct 2021 22:15:33 GMT

@darlicious wrote:
@0PX9O4
I know the difference between wifi calling and voLTE. The bf has only the pre-installed phone app on his phone. When he called me and later a test call to a telus customer his pm phone number showed on call display. voLTE calling is enabled in his phone....glitch that it is the likely theory when I asked the community about it was that the provisioning for voLTE remains active on his phone.

Maybe I'm not not understanding what you encountered. But I assure you that PM does not offer any VoLTE service.

Not being fully aware of that situation, I can't comment on the anecdote you are describing.

Re: Promotions

darlicious — Thu, 21 Oct 2021 22:32:54 GMT

@0PX9O4

Since you mentioned you have a telus phone.....is voLTE calling still enabled on your phone from your time with telus? While it is a strange anomaly the bf experienced it would be interesting to see if it could be replicated. Too bad you weren't around when I was asking if there was anything any one wanted to test before reactivating his plan.

Re: Promotions

Nezgar — Thu, 21 Oct 2021 22:53:53 GMT

@0PX9O4 wrote:
@darlicious Voice over LTE has absolutely no connection with WiFi calling. More info here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice_over_LTE

Ahem, they are very much related - they both stem from same core IMS "IP Multimedia Subsystem":

According to your linked page: "VoLTE is based on the IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) architectural framework, with specific profiles for control and media planes of voice service."

Now compare with a wiki article about GAN / Wi-Fi Calling: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_Access_Network

"The latest generation system is named Wi-Fi Calling or VoWiFi ..... The service is dependent on IMS, IPsec, IWLAN and ePDG"