@eyes wrote:
Let’s not be hasty…… don’t forget that the reward dollars will be converted to points that may be used towards paying your plan. In your case plans.
You are kidding, right? On the low cost low usage plans you have to pay full price for a full year before you get even close to the 15point threshold for redeeming points to available funds.
There is absolutely nothing hasty in our decisions - the port-out(s) would have happened eventually anyway. Public Mobile, in their infinite wisdom, just gave us a clear date.
Because of considerably diminishing call quality and reliability on my former Public Mobile referral's lines, we've been testing networks for several months last year. Where those phones are used most, Freedom is equal and in some spots even outperforming Telus/Public Mobile (same phones, same places, same times - to make it as fair of a comparison as possible we even used phones for the tests that are whitelisted by Public Mobile... {Freedom doesn't block any phone from using features like VoLTE, as long as the phone supports them. PM does.}).
As of early this year the only thing that kept these accounts at Public Mobile was the price after $ rewards. These accounts didn't have referrals, just auto pay and loyalty rewards.
Public Mobile with legacy rewards: (12 x $13 plan cost) - (12 x $2 auto pay) - (12 x $5 loyalty) = $72/360days actual payments
Public Mobile on Points: 12 x $13 plan cost = $156/360days actual payments... Only after 365 days, after application of the $10 extra points will there be >15 points to redeem to available funds.
Public Mobile's $10$13 plan, that these people were on before porting, includes 50 minutes CW in and out, 50 texts out, unlimited incoming texts, no data. *
Freedom's lower yearly plan has unlimited calls (in and out), unlimited text (in and out) plus 15GB/year for $119/year. $9.92/1.25GB/month. More than the current $6 at PM, but $3 less for considerably more features (and, for these particular customers, better service overall) come May.
I've said it time and again: Freedom is not for everyone. But in the case of the accounts I help(ed) manage it was/is a no-brainer for both cost and reliability/quality.
* The math is not significantly better on the still available $15 plan (100 minutes out, unlimited in, unlimited text in and out, 0.25GB). As of May (12 x $15) = $180/360days actual cost. A whooping 9 points accumulated - again, the earliest you can redeem $15 to available funds is after day 365 when you get the 10 loyalty points... That is, as long as they stick with the current conversion of 1 point = $1...
If you compare similar features: It's Public Mobile's $25/30 days for unlimited talk & text and 1GB vs Freedom's $119/year = $9.92/month for unlimited talk & text and 1.25GB... Even with 15points = $15 converted at the end of the year, PM is more than double the price. For, in our cases, comparable network quality.
