@Zelia
There are never any extra charges or overages at public mobile. If you dont pay for it up front it just wont work or it will stop working once you use it all up. Or if something does work when you havent paid for it then its a freebie.
With a limited calling plan ($15 plan) you will recieve a text message when its 90% used (10 min left.) You may want to purchase the $5/500min canada wide calling add on to supplement this plan. It will roll over each month until completely used. You will still recieve the 10 min. left text. Otherwise if you run out of minutes outgoing calling will cease or if you have loaded the free holiday 500 international calling minutes add on those minutes will be used once plan minutes are finished.
Plan data will recieve a notice at 75% and 90% usage. However if there is a data add on in the account you will not recieve plan data warnings. It is important (and a good teaching moment) to make use of a smartphones tools in the data settings. Enable the data saver, turn off the wifi assist (iPhone), set the data tracker dates (note the months that dont have 30 days and reset), set the data warning and data limiter (I have mine set at 25% and 50%)and adjust accordingly when the limiter turns off the data and you have to reset and keep in mind any add ons you may have. Lastly under data usage go thru each app and turn off background data. It is not needed....if it is the phone wont let you turn it off like the OS. This can save you up to 38% of your data usage.
