@drsyxu wrote:
As of today my phone is now showing TELUS vs PUBLIC MOBILE. I realize PM is a sub of TELUS but wondering if this is normal. I have a number of people on referral and I’m sure I’m going to be asked. Thanks
Just ignore it, if other people ask you, tell them to ignore it. It's all the same.
@sheytoon wrote:
Technically there is no Public Mobile network. It's a shared Bell/Telus RAN and Telus core.
The SIM card should translate the Telus PLMN (302-220) to display Public Mobile on your phone, but maybe LG overwrites that to their own translation table, where 302-220 is Telus.
@imm1304 wrote:
if your phone got a software update, that could have changed few things.
The sim card was telling your phone that the carrier is PM but an update changed something so that the phone is not listening to sim card and deciding for itself that its connected to Telus.. which is true anyways since we are connected to Telus core as @sheytoon mentioned.
@computergeek541 wrote:
There is no "Public Mobile" network. All Public customer use the Telus network. I wouldn't worry about it if your phone shows Telus. Some sim cards like to send instructions to mask the true network name and to rename them.
For example, Public sim cards change "Telus" to "Public Mobile" and Fido sim cards change "Rogers Wireless" to simply "Fido". With Wind, some of the sim cards would rename just Rogers to "Wind Away" while with other generations of Wind sim cards, any and all non-Wind networks would get renamed to Wind Away.
On some phones, the software is programed to ignore the sim programmed network names (especially custom ROMs). On such a phone, it would not be uncommon for the phone to always say Telus as the network name, but for a different phone to display the expected name of Public Mobile afer inserting that same sim card into it.
