topic Re: Official Number of PM active accounts in Get Support

Official Number of PM active accounts

Devil_tear — Tue, 04 Jan 2022 23:13:08 GMT

I was just curious to know if anybody knows the approx. number of active PM accounts. like the number of active SIMs that PM has at the moment in Canada... i tried to Google it but the numbers are all referring to the pre-rebranding times...

Basically I'm asking: has anybody counted "us"? 😄

Re: Official Number of PM active accounts

imm1304 — Fri, 11 Nov 2016 03:34:39 GMT

Good question, @Devil_tear!

When Telus bought PM, there were around 200,000 customers. During the big change to the Telus network and rise in prices, perhaps they lost 50,000 customers. Then, there has been a slow but steady growth for 1.5 years until this summer. Probably reached around 225,000 customers.

First PM launched the $38/2GB per month plan and got excellent response.

Now, with this super hot promo, there is even faster growth happening.

I would say there must be around 270,000 of "us" now.

It goes without saying that these are my guestimates.. not really based on any real data.

Re: Official Number of PM active accounts

Devil_tear — Fri, 11 Nov 2016 03:40:43 GMT

That was my guess too... 270-300.000... I hope somebody will release some official numbers when the fall promo is over.. That would be cool.. 🙂

Re: Official Number of PM active accounts

Watoko — Fri, 11 Nov 2016 04:33:53 GMT

Does anyone know how this compares with other companies such as Wind, Koodo, chatr?

Re: Official Number of PM active accounts

Devil_tear — Fri, 11 Nov 2016 11:52:21 GMT

@Watoko Well... not sure about the other MVNO's like Koodo and Fido ect... but this will give you an idea of the other major companies numbers in Canada (Big 3 and Wind)

https://www.cwta.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/SubscribersStats_en_2016_Q2.pdf

Re: Official Number of PM active accounts

Watoko — Fri, 11 Nov 2016 14:54:42 GMT

Cool, thanks. Good to know 🙂

Re: Official Number of PM active accounts

Rockdaddy22 — Fri, 11 Nov 2016 14:58:02 GMT

I don't think they are considered MVNO's are they

Re: Official Number of PM active accounts

Devil_tear — Fri, 11 Nov 2016 15:38:47 GMT

@Rockdaddy22 yup, Koodo, Fido, Chart, Virgin Mobile are all considered MVNO's since they do not own there own network

Re: Official Number of PM active accounts

Rockdaddy22 — Fri, 11 Nov 2016 15:40:41 GMT

Actually I don't think they are not considered mvno's I'm pretty sure about that, but not positive

Re: Official Number of PM active accounts

Rockdaddy22 — Fri, 11 Nov 2016 15:41:15 GMT

Those company's are owned by the big 3

Re: Official Number of PM active accounts

Rockdaddy22 — Fri, 11 Nov 2016 15:42:19 GMT

I believe an mvno is a separate company that runs on someone else's network

Re: Official Number of PM active accounts

Devil_tear — Fri, 11 Nov 2016 18:28:18 GMT

you are right... they are not considered MVNO, but PM is...

PM is still owned by Telus, running their services on Telus network, so i really don't understand the difference...

i thought that if you own spectrum and the equipment to run that spectrum you are a Mobile Provider, if you do not own spectrum or equipment you are automatically an MVNO...