@HALIMACS
Lol....beat me to it. I decided to answer Q.2 before Q.3 after reading Q.1.
@RyanRacer
Really the question for you is how are you going to use your mobile services? Are there other services that you require from your mobile provider? As suggested by @HALIMACS adding the $5/500min Canada wide calling add on may prove to be more economical for you (and/or your employer?) How many outgoing calls do you actually make?
I rarely exceed my 100 outgoing minutes in fact I usually call my mom on day 30 just to use up my minutes as most of my contacts know to call me or will call me back if I text or call them first. I use either fongo or text now to check my voicemail or call certain numbers that I know have a high likelihood of putting me on hold and I schedule a callback whenever possible.
The $5/500min add on is a one time purchase that does not expire. Instead it rolls over every 30 days until completely consumed. The $15 plan+$5/500 min add on=$20/30 days for unlimited SMS/MMS texts and incoming calling and 600 minutes (100 plan minutes+500 add on minutes) of outgoing calling. That's 10 hours of talk time if you initiate the call. In all likelihood you will use an average of 100 extra minutes per 30 days which would add about $1 to your plan cost each 30 days. You would only need to purchase the $5/500min add on once every 5 or 6 months.
While you do not need mobile data having 250mb can still be handy for checking email, your self serve account, Google maps or if needed using textnow or fongo for calls when you can't access wifi. These voip providers use about 0.5mb=1min so 250mb=500min. They also offer free calling to the US and act as "PM" Roaming (Poor Man's Roaming...lol) for international destinations not served by pm's US (only) Roaming add ons. PC Mobile has no roaming options at all and no service at all in certain northern areas of BC and Alberta and none in the Yukon, NWT and Iqaluit.
Read the terms of service of PC Mobile there are significant differences between public mobile and PC Mobile. There are no overages, extra billing or fees at Public Mobile. PC Mobile has overage and pay per use charges. Add ons automatically renew and the minutes and/or data expires at the end of each billing month. You must top up your full amount including add ons before the end of your billing month at PC Mobile.
They can easily be significant like $0.40/min for extra Canada wide or US calling minutes compared to $0.01/min and $0.15 (US and the UK rate) at pm. While they offer more international calling destinations than pm with starting rates between $0.037/min and $0.049/min the majority of these rates are to landlines only with mobile number calls up to 10× and even 20× more per minute.
Public mobile has its points rewards program. You get 3×points (5% get back points×3=15%) for your first 12 months and 5% thereafter (+anniversary, referral and give back points rewards) whereas you get 5% back only if you enroll for pre-authorized payments and the additional 5% if you use a PC financial product to pay and its for PC optimum points....so no bill credits or discounted add on redemptions......
I could go on......but to cancel your services here you can....
- Port out your phone number to another provider....like PC Mobile.
- Disable autopay.
- Replace your autopay card with a $0 credit/gift card.
- Contact customer support to remove your autopay card.
- Put your autopay card on hold in its online account before midnight eastern on day 30 of your renewal and remove the hold after noon eastern the next day.
- Self suspend via lost/stolen.
- Write pm at 25 York St, Toronto, Ontario and after allowing 30 days for reciept state the date you would like to cancel your services.
- Options #2 thru #7 all suspend services that can be manually topped up and reactivated before day 89/90 or they will be automatically cancelłed.
Welcome to Public Mobile....and Sorry to see you go.....? 🤔😀
