@linkrinkwrote:
Thanks for your comments.
BTW, when we select no text, no data & no talk, it still shows $25 for 90days, which I am okay with but wanted to know it it has "voicemail", so I can have my number active, as an alternative to paking number with other service provider for $6.
Be considerate before making fun.
Its a number I wont be using at all, just want to maintain it for any future use/activation. have already paid $80pm to Rogers for years for this 🙂
We are not making fun. All of us try to tell you that a 0 talk / 0 text / 0 data plan does NOT exist at Public Mobile. Public Mobile does not have a pay-as-you go option.
Consider the $25 the base fee, you still need to choose a talk option or a text option or a data option (or, if you are using it, any combination of the three that fits your needs) to have an active plan you can port your number to.
Plus once you have an account with a plan you can only let it expire and be inactive for 90days.
So even if you are just parking your number you'd be paying more than $60 a year (because, roughly, 30+90+30+90+30+90 is less than a full year, you'll have a 4th renewal in there...) Also, if you choose a voice plan - the only option that will give you access to voice mail - the voice mail will also be inactive if your account is suspended.
Haven't checked fongo's terms and conditions recently, but I have read about port-in fees and difficulties porting back out with them in the past. So, while I can't speak from own experience of parking a number at a voip provider, any limitiations and fees around porting are something to look into carefully before you park your number with any voip provider.
I had parked a number at SpeakOut a while back, their $25 top-up lasts a full year, minus the 12* $1.25 = $15 "911 fee" per year gives you $10 payg balance. Not sure if any number would be worth "$80pm ... for years" to me.
