From August 23rd until September 13th, 2018, you and your friend can each get a $25 credit when you refer them to Public Mobile and they activate online.
Get the full scoop below.
Taking advantage of this promo is easy. Just follow these steps:
As a Public Mobile customer you need to:
Be a good pal and refer a friend to Public Mobile.
Tell your friend that they need to successfully activate online on a 30 or 90-day plan during the promotional period and include you as their referrer in order to be eligible for the promotion.
The one-time $25 credit will be applied to your Self-Serve account within 72 hours of your friend’s online activation. In addition, you will continue to be eligible for the $1 referral credit off your monthly bill for as long as your friend stays with Public Mobile.
Enter your active Public Mobile phone number on the referral page during the activation process. Be sure they enter your number and not their own so you get credit for the referral.
The one-time $25 credit will be applied to their Self-Serve account within 72 hours of activation.
FAQs and terms and conditions are below. Happy referring!
If I am referred and then I refer a friend or family member am I eligible for both sender and receiver rewards? Yes, you are. This means that you would receive one $25 credit for being referred. Then, after activating with Public Mobile, you are eligible to take part in this promotion as a referral sender and earn $25 Refer-a-Friend credits during the promotional period. Learn more here.
I am a Legacy customer. Am I eligible for these rewards? Legacy customers are not eligible for rewards. However, Legacy customers’ referrals are eligible for this offer, and can receive a one-time $25 account credit. To learn more about Reward eligibility and Rewards,visit publicmobile.ca/rewardrules . If you would like to take advantage of this promotional offer, our support team can help you switch your plan to one that is currently available.
As the referral receiver, am I eligible for the ongoing $10 Refer a Friend Reward credit, as well as this $25 Refer a Friend credit? No, these credits are not stackable. Instead, you will receive a total of $25 via an account credit, rather than the ongoing $10 Refer-a-Friend Reward credit.
When does this promotion end? This promotion will end September 13, 2018 11:59PM EST.
Terms and Conditions
Referral sender (current Public Mobile customer)
All existing Refer a Friend eligibility requirements and rules apply. To learn more, visit publicmobile.ca/rewardrules.
While Legacy customers are not eligible for Public Mobile Refer a Friend rewards, Legacy customers’ referrals are eligible for this offer, and can receive a one-time $25 account credit.
You and your referee have to accept these terms to participate in the program.
You can only refer individuals with whom you have a personal or family relationship to ensure compliance with Canada's anti-spam legislation.
You can’t refer yourself or an existing Public Mobile customer.
TELUS team members, contractors, sales representatives acting on TELUS's behalf and associates at retail locations who receive special pricing are excluded from this promotion.
Referral receiver (your friend)
Must activate on a 30 or 90-day plan with Public Mobile.
You must input the referral information (referrer’s Public Mobile phone number) during your activation.
You and your referrer have to accept these terms to participate in the program.
After activating with Public Mobile, you are eligible to take part in this promotion as a referral sender.
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
Your privacy is important to TELUS. We have a long-standing policy of protecting the privacy of our customers in all of our business operations. Please visit telus.com/privacy for more information on the principles that govern the collection, use and disclosure of personal information. These principles reflect our continuing commitment to protecting our customers' privacy.
LIKE I MENTIONED ONCE I BUY THE PHONE............HOW DO I CONNECT WITH PUBLIC SINCE NO SERVICE IS AVAILABLE...................PLEASE ANSWER ...URGENTLY
@cappaj, the very first line of this thread, on page 1, the original post says
* This is online only
Or something directly to that effect.
In-store activations are exempt.
Yeah - my point was that the little ad in My Account doesn't specify that, and I'm guessing a lot of people won't click through to the Community, look for this thread, and successfully find this thread, and then see that it's online only. They'll just look at the ad, go "great!" and not know that the promo doesn't apply in store.
@naliya7 I think search through Facebook groups for a deal might be a little outside your wheelhouse so to speak.
Really the simplist thing to do is buy in the market where someone can help you in person. Public Mobile simply does not sell any phones. You need to buy outright. Try best buy and ask for a unlocked flip phone you can use with Public Mobile. They can help you find a phone that you can buy outright completely. If you are internet savvy try searching Kijiji like I mentioned.
@naliya7 you will need to buy a phone somewhere that's unlocked. If you want something cheap look around Kijiji for an Android device or a possible older generation iPhone.
Keep an eye on Facebook buy and sell pages for your area too.
You need to buy your own phone. This provider doesn't sell anything but the service.
Pioneer/Legacy plans are those plans that were offered before January 26, 2015, before PM moved to an online-only support model. These plans are the only ones still with access to the legacy call centre, and are not eligible for rewards.
I found out too late about this $25 / $25 online activation offer. I knew about the London Drugs/Walmart in-store promo. I have 2 Rogers numbers I was planning to port over ($10 plan for both). Went to LD to port 1 first. Rep told me it doesn't apply to the $10 plan, only a plan that included talk, text and data. Went ahead with the port and didn't have to pay for the SIM. At the end, the rep told me that I would have to register to create an online account once I put the SIM in my phone and receive a PIN via text.
Found out about the $25 / $25 offer this morning Went to LD to pick up the 2nd SIM no activation. Paid the $10. Came home and did the online activation and self referral. The only difference I noticed from activating in store vs online was that the online account was already set up when activating online. I didn't need to wait for a PIN via text or anything.
I noticed today on the My Account home page that the little ad for this promo doesn't mention anything about it being for online activations only:
"Sharing is caring! From Aug 23-Sept 13, 2018 refer your friend to Public Mobile and both you and your friend will receive a one-time $25 account credit! See the Community for more details."
It says to check for details in the Community, which is where it'll specify it's online only - but I bet a lot of people don't bother to come to the community to read full details (or if they do, they struggle to find the info and give up).
I feel like a lot of people have come in here expecting the promo to apply to in-store activations - might help if that little My Account ad had "online" added, and/or actually hyperlink the word "Community" to this thread.
1) Credits take up to 72 hours to appear in your account balance (though usually within 24 hours).
2) This promo is for online activations only. If you sign up in store, the new customer gets the regular referral reward of $10 credit and the referrer gets $1/30 days for as long as the new customer remains a customer.
Are you expecting the $25 as the new customer or as the referrer?
They just do that to show that they sold the sim for their inventory counts so they know when to replenish their SIM cards it does not imply anything about activating
This is an AWESOME Deal, you can buy the Sim card from Walmart, aak the staff NOT TO ACTIVATE for you. Same as previous friend referral, you aak your friend to login to publicmobile site to activate. Viola...
If anyone need a referral code, please send me a PM. I will be so happy to share 😄
I activated this week and I got my full credits from referral and the $25 credits happening now too. It was a Walmart and he did it using his web service portal through Telus -- as I watched -- and everything went through as expected.
I too am confused how PM knows whether it is an instore vs online activation.
Yesterday, I went to London Drugs to buy a sim and activate at home. The guy wanted to do an online activation and I said no because of this $25+$25 offer. Anyway, the guy said that even if I activated there, I should still get the $25+$25 credit PLUS a free sim. He showed me his activation screen and it was basically a webpage. I checked the URL and it said activation.publicmobile.ca so I'm confused. I was really tempted to activate right then and there but I decided against it because I like following the rules. I ended up buying the sim and going home to activate. Strangely tho, even though I just bought the sim, he went and filled out one of those carbon copy paper receipts with a description of the sim and I had to sign it. I was wondering what was the purpose of a carbon copy paper receipt? Maybe this is how PM knows that it was activated instore because the receipt would have the sim and plan details and this gets sent to PM.
Just to clarify, the $1 reward would be granted even if you got the referral 1 day before your renewal date.
Yes, and in the same way, if your referral leaves just a couple days before your renewal, you'll lose the $3 reward even if they were there for 98% of your 90 day plan (or $1 for a 30 day plan).
So for in-store activations, there's no $10 referral credit?
In store, the new customer still gets the regular $10 referral credit and the referrer gets $1/30 days for as long as the new customer stays a customer.
Of course, if you have friends that want to move to Public Mobile, they can put your phone number as the referral when activating their phone number. You would get this promo (if activated online) and ongoing $1 per month credit as long as your friend stays with Public Mobile. You can refer as many people as you can....
Went to LD to pick up the 2nd SIM no activation. Paid the $10. Came home and did the online activation and self referral. The only difference I noticed from activating in store vs online was that the online account was already set up when activating online. I didn't need to wait for a PIN via text or anything.
