@pm-smayer97 wrote:
It that what made them get rid of all their LTE plans, to get rid of the "empty" space?
Absolutely.
Assuming that Public Mobile is a business making business decisions, as most people here do. But also assuming that Public Mobile is in many ways not a business itself but merely a department owned and operated by a larger business.
The carriers don't have infinite funds to deploy and operate infinite hardware with infinite coverage and infinite data.
The decision was made to no longer offer LTE.
Maybe it's a balance of LTE costs to operator vs LTE revenues from customers, a lot of people always demand it but perhaps not enough actually paying for it to be profitable. It could genuinely cost PM too much to be sustainable business practice.
Maybe it's controlled scarcity, intentionally limited (or denied) at third-tier so first- and second-tier attract more customers. Telus would prefer to be paid $60 than $40 for providing your service, yes? Not in their best interests to cannibalize their own market or to de-value their own commodity.
Maybe it's a an experiment. Or even a bona-fide blunder. But I think not since many people complain and some leave and most stay and more always come. PM has consistently lowest prices in town, no argument, but those savings must come at a price, from us to them, from them to us.
