@baconator2999
Sounds like you are saying your contract is over in one and a half months. Consider these options once you acquire your sim card. It's important to remember that your contract with a device subsidy works in this manner ( refer to your contract for exact details.)
As an example if you pay $70 per month on a postpaid contract. $40 is your plan and $30 is your device subsidy. Postpaid bills/contracts are prorated ( you only pay for the services you recieve.) With device contracts once you use and subsequently pay for a portion of your monthly billing period the WCC legislation considers that an entire months worth of device subsidy paid.
Once you enter the final month of your contract anytime after the first day of that monthly billing period if you choose to port out (on day 2 for example) to public mobile ( thus closing your other providers account) your final bill will be as follows:
- An entire month would be $70 ($40plan/$30device subsidy)
- Early cancellation fee (ECF) device subsidy × months remaining in contract.
- By porting on day 2 you will be charged a prorated amount on 2/30 days. $70÷30=$2.33 per day. 2 days×$2.33=$4.66 because the prorated monthly billing includes your device subsidy of $2 ($30 p/m÷30days=$1 p/day×2=$2) $4.66 Will be your final bill including your ECF of 1 month × device subsidy ($30) because the $2=:$30 as per the WCC legislation.
- Be sure to pay your 2nd last (for Oct?) bill in full before porting out ( or estimate and pay your normal amount if billing is delayed.)
- You save based on the $70 example provided $28 + the difference in your plan amount between your current providers and public mobile.
Having a sim card ready and signing up for deal alerts and regularily checking in on the community you can time your defection from you current provider with a flash sale. If one occurs and will expire before your final month starts just activate with a temporary number from pm and port over on your 2nd day of your final billing period if a sale occurs after then just port your number in upon activation which will immediately close your account with your current provider.
You could also wait it out for most of November and decide which flash sale is most tempting ( if pm promotes all month like last year) finishing with a very generous black friday promotion and activate and port over your number during the black friday promotions (no guarantees that they have one though.) You must decide when porting your number will save you the most money!
Welcome to the public mobile community. Spend some time here over the next six weeks and we can help learn about public mobile and help you decide went to port over. @Ed404 did this last year and scored an awesome black Friday promotion and a community reward (Top 10%=$5) to boot!
