@ohitora wrote:
More carefully perused Koodo and - yes - it’s worth looking into. However in addition that a new SIM card has to be purchased doubt that the funds in my PM account could be transferred or am I wrong?
@ohitora to your last question, again "it depends". If you are talking about unused portion of your current 30/90 day cycle, or any rewards you may have earned, the answer is that no, those are not transferrable and would be forfeitted. I'm not sure which migration offer you may have received, but most of them have a bill credit built in that can help to offset that loss. In some cases, it will cover more than you stand to lose, in some cases you end up losing a bit. In the latter case, you always need to look at the bigger picture to see how the plans will meet your needs in the longer term. For example, it may be worth loosing a few dollars if you stand to benefit month after month by either getting more of the things you need and/or paying less for it at Koodo. That's an individual assessment everyone needs to make based on their needs, preferences, and budget.
If you're talking about Available Funds balance, if you have a family member that uses PM (I believe you said you did), you can ask the moderators to move the un-used available funds balance to another active PM account. I'm not 100% sure they are still able/willing to do this, but I know they were in some of the previous migrations earlier this year.
To your point about the SIM card, again there are nuances. Koodo has changed things a bit since I migrated in March, so I'm not 100% sure how it works now if you're not purchasing a new phone from them during activation. If you are purchasing a new phone, and you order it online, there is NO up front cost for the SIM or activation; if you are purchasing a new phone and do so at a retail location, they charge a $30 activation fee, which also includes the cost of the SIM card. I believe if you are just activating without phone purchase, the same $30 fee is charged in stores, but I don't know if it's free online now or if they charge a nominal fee for the SIM card. At the time I did mine, the SIM card was $15, but they had no concept of activation fee at the time.
That said, even if you are charged as much as $30, you can actually recoup that plus $20 more in 8-10 weeks with a referral credit. https://referafriend.koodomobile.com/public/home.pg. If you know someone on Koodo, ask them to sign in at that page and send you a referral link. If you don't know someone there, there are many people here in the community that would be happy to send you their link, myself included. With that referral link, you click it and register with a little basic info including the email address you will use for your Koodo account, and do this first. They send you an email with another link you will need after activation. Then you buy online or go to the store as you desire, and once you have the sim in hand and activate, port your PM phone number over and verify that's working. Then you visit the link in the email from Koodo and type in your ported over phone number, and then in 8-10 weeks both you and the person that referred you will get a $50 bill credit on your Koodo account. Whole process takes about 5 mins including the two steps, very simple. If you are seriously considering taking a Koodo migration, it's worth using a referral link for sure.
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