@Dunkman wrote:
@Beppel
Customer service agents usually will not downgrade plans for existing customers, but you can try. Looks like PM is leaning towards personalized plan offers for existing customers. Each existing customers may have different plan offers. Unfortunately, it looks like most of the offers are likely more expensive than existing plans that the customer presently have.
If you are not attached to your present phone number, you could activate a new account with a new number to get this promo plan. Another option is to port your existing number to another carrier and then port back in as a new customer.
Obviously can only speak for myself / my group of former referees, but at this point I don't see a reason to port back in once PM has forced us to port out to get better pricing. When it comes to low cost low usage, PM is, if at all, only marginally competitive for a lot of people*. In our cases it's coupled with a considerable drop in network quality (the dropped calls were just the cherry on top). So, really, there is no incentive for us to port back in - why jump through the hoops and pay more for getting less?
* Yes, I absolutely acknowledge that Atlantic and rural Canada has more limited choice, so PM might still be their best option. Also, my statement may not apply for those $34 roaming plans - our group came here for the lowest cost plans.
