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911 tax affects the NWT and all provinces except BC, Manitoba & Ontario

colleeno — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 23:25:57 GMT

From Public Mobile’s help articles.

https://www.publicmobile.ca/en/get-help/articles/911services

Re: 911 tax affects the NWT and all provinces except BC, Manitoba & Ontario

hTideGnow — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 18:32:42 GMT

hi @colleeno

yes, blame the provincial govts for this fancy fees

Re: 911 tax affects the NWT and all provinces except BC, Manitoba & Ontario

golfball — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 21:14:46 GMT

Is this fee new or is PM only implementing it now?

Re: 911 tax affects the NWT and all provinces except BC, Manitoba & Ontario

hTideGnow — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 21:22:34 GMT

hi @golfball it has been around for sometimes. Many carriers ask their subscribers to pay for them on top of the plan cost long time ago and PM is in fact follow this trend late

Re: 911 tax affects the NWT and all provinces except BC, Manitoba & Ontario

Grinch — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 03:59:16 GMT

Are you sure? I had to pay for 911 on my VoIP account in BC but not with PM.
Or is it because PM has e911?

Re: 911 tax affects the NWT and all provinces except BC, Manitoba & Ontario

cellphoneuser1 — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 04:20:33 GMT

@Grinch wrote:
Are you sure? I had to pay for 911 on my VoIP account in BC but not with PM.
Or is it because PM has e911?

These fee have been around forever. Nothing changes but Public Mobile wanting to charge it on top now.

Re: 911 tax affects the NWT and all provinces except BC, Manitoba & Ontario

pagurus — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 16:03:10 GMT

The 911 tax has been around for a long time . I was paying on my Bell landline here in New Brunswick for years before I ported my number to PM - and I wondered why I wasn't paying it when I came to Public. My guess either Public was not collecting it (unlikely) or it was just part of the bill and now instead of raising our monthly subscription rates they are now "charging " it.