04-19-2018 09:31 AM
Hey Community,
We’re offering a new Refer a Friend promotion, thanks to one of the amazing ideas we received from our Oracle team. A special thanks to @Luddite for sharing this idea!
Until May 10th, 2018, if you refer a friend to Public Mobile and they activate, your friend will get a one-time $10 account credit to offset the cost of their SIM card. Plus, you’ll receive a $1 referral reward as part of our rewards program!
Get the full scoop below.
Taking advantage of this promo is easy. Just follow these steps:
As a Public Mobile customer you need to:
Your friend will need to…
FAQs and terms and conditions are below. Happy referring!
-Public Mobile Community team
Refer a Friend Promotion FAQs
This promotion will end May 10th, 2018 11:59PM EST.
Terms and Conditions
Referral sender (current Public Mobile customer) |
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Referral receiver (your friend) |
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OTHER
TELUS assumes no responsibility for lost, delayed, damaged or misdirected referrals or communications or for any failure of the website, for any problems or technical malfunction of any computer online systems, servers, access providers, computer equipment, software, failure of any e-mail or referral to be received by TELUS on account of technical problems or traffic congestion on the Internet or at any website, or any combination thereof including any injury or damage to your (or any other person's) computer related to or resulting from this program. TELUS reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to change, cancel or suspend this program should a virus, bug or other cause beyond the reasonable control of TELUS, corrupt the security or proper administration of the program or for any other reason. Referrals are subject to verification and will be declared invalid if they are illegible, unintelligible, falsified, altered or tampered with or unlawful in any way. Referrals submitted by unauthorized means will be disqualified. In the event that it has been determined that a referral has been made in a manner not sanctioned by these terms, you and all of you referrals will be disqualified from this program and any referral credits that have been awarded will be deducted. You agree to abide by the terms of this program and the decisions of the TELUS team, which are final. This program is subject to all applicable laws and regulations.
TELUS may end the promotion or change any of the terms at any time, without notice and without obligation to award any promotion.
PRIVACY
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05-08-2018 12:31 PM - edited 05-08-2018 12:35 PM
@pm-smayer97 wrote:Apparently, PM has already removed the deadline and made this a regular offering.
At the moment, the deadline is still there in the original post:
"Until May 10th, 2018, if you refer a friend...."
It's also hidden in the "Spoiler" link:
"This promotion will end May 10th, 2018 11:59PM EST."
05-08-2018 12:08 PM - edited 05-08-2018 12:09 PM
Apparently, PM has already removed the deadline and made this a regular offering.
05-08-2018 10:51 AM
PM please extend this promotion I've talked to several people about switching but by the time people do all their research and decide to switch then order a sim and activate it. The promo is going to be over. There is also the issue of people waiting for their contract to be up with other companies
I would like to see this offer permanently added to the rewards program.
05-04-2018 05:27 PM - edited 05-04-2018 05:41 PM
Hey everyone, new to Public Mobile and I've recently bought 2 sim cards and I'm looking for someone to be my referrer for the first one(already have plans for second one), you get the $1 and I'll get the 10$. If anyone is interested please PM me your #, I will most likely be activiating within the next hour with or without having a referer. I hope this is an okay place to put this message. Alright, I got a number already, I no longer need anyone's PM's.
05-04-2018 10:00 AM
@kav2001c wrote:If the existing client gets the $1 refer credit immediately why does it take the 72 hours for new client to get the $10 promo credit?
In practice it took much less than 72 hours for me. Signed up on a new subscription yesterday afternoon, immediately got an SMS "congratulating" me for a successful friend referral, and then this morning I saw "$10 Referral Credit/Crédit de recommandation de 10 $" show up in my "new" account (which I've set up for my son). It seems all the billing stuff happens during their nightly batch jobs, and this will generally happen soon after as long as the activation went smoothly (and it did).
05-02-2018 01:11 AM - edited 05-02-2018 01:12 AM
@Autumn wrote:Does this works if a friend got her sim card at Walmart and the Walmart guy opened/activated an account for her? She just wanted to get the PM sim and do it herself at home but they rudely said that won't sell it to her unless they set it up.
Alternatively, maybe the Walmart rep is/know a PM customer and wanted to get the referal for themself? Or I know they get a commission for other companies post-paid plan activations, not sure about PM?
But the only way to get that credit is to get someone's PM number in the form when activating. If not, she can still try to private message the mods and see if they can credit her 10$ anyways (say she does know someone whos a PM customer and initially wanted to get their number in while activationg at home...) It's not the first mention of Walmart employes refusing to sell SIMs without activation, event if they should not.
05-01-2018 09:05 PM
It could possibly have worked if she had another PM Customer's number to have the Wal-mart staffer enter as a referal... otherwise, without a referal, no.
05-01-2018 08:46 PM
Does this works if a friend got her sim card at Walmart and the Walmart guy opened/activated an account for her? She just wanted to get the PM sim and do it herself at home but they rudely said that won't sell it to her unless they set it up.
05-01-2018 03:24 AM
thanks for the info. i am new to public mobile and already liking it much..
04-30-2018 07:37 PM
Yeah, that's the nature of promos, they are offered in order to get a result, which is someone taking advantage of them before they are over!
04-30-2018 07:30 PM
Nice, but I think PM should keep this as a regular (one time) incentive for new referrals instead of a timed (promo) approach.
04-28-2018 02:45 AM
Well, I have signed up one new customer - a friend has ported his landline which he doesn't seem to want to give up (or make into a dedicated cell #), so with autopay - he's got an $8.00 a month plan!
Also, just worthy of note: I was able to buy two SIM cards at Walmart in Abbotsford (Highstreet) today. They would have liked to activate them in store, but I was able to purchase them and do it at our leisure at home. I will make a point of ordering another spare SIM online direct from PM on Monday - I should always have at least one spare on hand!
04-27-2018 04:38 PM
@chandlerparsons wrote:
@stonechucker wrote:Remember, it's not true 3G service. It's LTE throttled to 3G speeds. In fact, the speed is still quicker than the maximum 3G.
The truth is, you're actually get 4G "Lite"
Can you still FaceTime though and what's the quality?
I have no problems using "3G" data for such apps. Also see here for more info on PM's 3G vs LTE: https://productioncommunity.publicmobile.ca/t5/Discussions/Share-your-3G-plan-experiences-here-laten...
04-27-2018 02:22 PM - edited 04-27-2018 02:23 PM
@chandlerparsons Yes you can still use Facetime and quality is not too bad.
04-27-2018 01:49 PM
@chandlerparsons, I'm not sure to be honest... I do not have an iPhone, so I have no experience with that.
However, if you're not dong "much" else at that time on the phone, it probably wouldn't be that bad. Maybe a little stuttery. @Luddite, you're an iPhone guy... any thoughts?
04-27-2018 01:24 PM
No I believe it is only the cost of a sim card discounted for the new customer and the referral number only gets $1 discount from bill
04-26-2018 02:09 PM
@stonechucker wrote:Remember, it's not true 3G service. It's LTE throttled to 3G speeds. In fact, the speed is still quicker than the maximum 3G.
The truth is, you're actually get 4G "Lite"
Can you still FaceTime though and what's the quality?
04-26-2018 02:00 PM
Remember, it's not true 3G service. It's LTE throttled to 3G speeds. In fact, the speed is still quicker than the maximum 3G.
The truth is, you're actually get 4G "Lite"
04-26-2018 01:25 PM - edited 04-26-2018 01:25 PM
3G is really fine if you are not streaming videos all the time...
Really I use it for email, facebook, google maps, spotify, etc... never had a problem with it... Even watching videos works well.
04-26-2018 01:15 PM
@mdlny8 wrote:Actually, the key here is: to "catch" the type of promo that suits one's need at the time they need it. I consider myself lucky when last month I got one free month for this $30 for 1GB+talk+text. That's a $30 savings plus additional $5 monthly savings now that the price has increased to $35 for that very same plan. And this month I get a second phone number for $10 which is really handy for "semi-dormant, private number" I intend to use only for dealing with financial institutions (my bank) and whatnot. Glad I was at the right place & right time -- although we can always switch the plans freely each month when something more desirable comes along, I suppose.
Too bad it's a $35 plan now 😞 how's 3g speeds?
04-26-2018 12:28 PM
Actually, the key here is: to "catch" the type of promo that suits one's need at the time they need it. I consider myself lucky when last month I got one free month for this $30 for 1GB+talk+text. That's a $30 savings plus additional $5 monthly savings now that the price has increased to $35 for that very same plan. And this month I get a second phone number for $10 which is really handy for "semi-dormant, private number" I intend to use only for dealing with financial institutions (my bank) and whatnot. Glad I was at the right place & right time -- although we can always switch the plans freely each month when something more desirable comes along, I suppose.
04-26-2018 09:08 AM
Nice incentive. I think sometimes when I talk to friends their hesitant to make the switch because there's not much of an incentive to make the initial switch. I think when I talk to them again I can now attach this with the auto pay credit and that might just dot he trick.
Nice to see PM is providing incentives like these throughout the year and not just during major holidays. Good attempt, appreciate the help.
04-26-2018 09:04 AM
No @Wormie, unfortunately this promo only applies for the friend being referred. However, you will get $1 off your plan each month for this referral as long as your friend stays with Public Mobile. So maybe that's even better than getting a one time $10 credit. Unless your friend switches to another provider in the next 10 months.
This is more of an incentive credit for friends to want to make the switch, plus we the current PM customers get the referral credit monthly.
04-25-2018 11:32 PM
@sbreakin wrote:... I also like pre-paid as when it's used you are cut off...
That would definitely be good if you are getting kids a phone especially when they start using data the overages become insane
04-25-2018 11:28 PM
This is a great idea. Gosh, might have to refer my daughter & sign her up for a plan earlier than I planned. I thought the new $10/mo limited plan would be a good start then if combined with this (for my plan) & auto-pay (on daughters) makes for a great basic plan to start. Hopefully, Walmart has some sims left. I also like pre-paid as when it's used you are cut off...
04-24-2018 09:21 PM
@kav2001c wrote:If the existing client gets the $1 refer credit immediately why does it take the 72 hours for new client to get the $10 promo credit?
It's a promotion, not a recurring reward.
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04-24-2018 09:20 PM
If the existing client gets the $1 refer credit immediately why does it take the 72 hours for new client to get the $10 promo credit?
04-24-2018 04:58 PM - edited 04-24-2018 05:05 PM
Seriously, someone should first fix the exisiting problem of Refer a Friend award is not showing in the account before we start referring our friends in. It's been weeks and I've been contacted different Mods, and all I got is "technical department is working on this"
04-20-2018 09:29 PM
Pm give us some special promo on price plans to bring in the people 😆
04-20-2018 01:52 PM
No only they would .. in 72 hours added to their account and you would get 1 dollar off your account as long as they fill out the forum correct