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Important Update: eSIM QR Code Now Included in Activation Summary Emails

Hi Community, We're happy to share some news that aims to make your eSIM installation process smoother and easier. As of June 15, we've started including an eSIM QR code in our activation summary emails. Why does this matter? If you encounter any dif...

Ck_PM by Public Mobile
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Troubleshooting Login Issues: OTP, 2FA, EverSafe

Hey Community, We are working very hard to resolve errors some of you are facing when logging in or creating a new ID. For Eversafe ID specific issues, our agents are currently unable to support a fix. Please hang tight until we provide an update.  I...

A_CX_PM by Public Mobile
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London Drugs Activation

Hi everyone!  I recently activated my phone with Public Mobile at a local London Drugs and had a great experience doing so.  Someone in my family already uses Public Mobile and they said it was good.   The port from Koodo to Public Mobile was painles...

SomeFriend by Model Citizen / Citoyen Modèle
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Resolved! Do I need to close down old phone account once transferred to Public Mobile?

An administrative question. I'm successfully set up on Public Mobile, phone is working with new SIM card and old number transferred over. Set up was straightforward -- love it! Is there anything I need to do with my old service provider to close down...

RobM by Good Citizen / Bon Citoyen
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Turning off Facetime for Apple phones

Has anyone else turned off Facetime on their iPhones? Seems there's a bug that allows people to listen in and in some instances, use your camera on your phone without your knowledge. https://gizmodo.com/disable-facetime-right-now-1832142571 You can d...

csarling by Good Citizen / Bon Citoyen
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Resolved! Can't pay after auto-renew didn't work?

When I log in it says "Plan Expired". I had auto-pay setup and my credit card expired so the payment didn't go through. My plan says I owe $0 and have $3 of credit. When I log in I see "Your account has been suspended. Make a payment to reactive your...

coltincav by Good Citizen / Bon Citoyen
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Plan Change Issue / Help required.

I have 2 accounts registered with public mobile. The 1st is a 30 day @ 40$ wiich gives me 4.5g of data per month, and other plan is 90 days which only gives me only 6gigs of data over 3 month period. I would like to take advantage of the 30 day bette...

nastycell by Great Neighbour / Super Voisin
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Printable Invoice

So in the Self Serve portal how do I generate an invoice? I get charged HST sales tax but there is no place to print an invoice which specifies the tax. It is illegal in Canada to charge sales tax without issuing a receipt showing the HST number. So ...

KamWest by Model Citizen / Citoyen Modèle
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Resolved! Sim Card Order

I received a confirmation email and another email saying that order was ready to ship 2 days ago. It still has not shipped? Order #xxxxxxx. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

bud21ca by Model Citizen / Citoyen Modèle
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AMOLED screen burn. Solutions?

Was given a Pixel2 demo phone and has the G logo / demonstration video effects burned in the screen. Has anyone had any success with evening out screen burn on a AMOLED by inverting the colors for an extended period of time or cycling R/G/B to unifor...

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RobertQc by Mayor / Maire
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Payment

Im trying to pay my bill with a prepaid Mastercard and it wont let me into my account. I did the forgot password but it then says my security answer is wrong. So frustrated. Can someone help please. 

Linda-132 by Good Citizen / Bon Citoyen
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Porting to Freedom

I want to port my public mobile to FreedomI've called Freedom but they tried to port my number. however, they could not port it because Telus said that this number is not in their system.How can I port my PM Number to Freedom Thanks

marco1891 by Good Citizen / Bon Citoyen
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Resolved! I couldn't receive or make a phone call

I start my public mobile plan on Jan 10, 2019. everything worked fine. on Jan 25. By curiousity, I tap   Call Voicemail    on my iphone. Followed the guild, I set my voice, my passwords. And I was told the voicemail was successfully set. ON today, Ja...

qing8882 by Great Neighbour / Super Voisin
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having problems activating my sim card.

I have recently gotten a public mobile phone.  My sim card does not work.  All I can get is an emergency number. Please advise as to what to do? Thanks Carole778xxxxxxx

carole111 by Good Citizen / Bon Citoyen
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Resolved! Phone activation

Trying to activate my number from a previous carrier. Got this message.  Public Mobile here: We're experiencing difficulties processing your request to move to Public Mobile. Please go to PublicMobile.ca, click Contact us and complete the SIM & Activ...

cpetitclerc73 by Great Neighbour / Super Voisin
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Resolved! Not receiving some texts, possibly all international

Hey all. I signed up for Public Mobile pretty recently, and so far things have been alright. Not the best coverage in my area, but seems OK. Voice, data, text, and phone are all working.However...I consistently haven't been able to receive texts from...

neman by Good Citizen / Bon Citoyen
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Resolved! Newbie needs info on what phone to get

Hi. I want to buy my first smartphone, preferably a 4G/LTE. When I look on this site re compatibility, it prompts me to enter the IMEI #. The problem is that I don't yet have a phone, so I don't know the #. I'm interested in the Samsung Galaxy J2 Pri...

dspanner by Great Neighbour / Super Voisin
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Resolved! Account deactivated

Yesturday i recieved a text of a new pin. I did not request a new pin so i went to log into my account and said that it did not exist. My service is no longer working. My next bill should not be until Feb 14th 2019 because i paid jan 14th 2019. I had...

Amlsalih93 by Great Neighbour / Super Voisin
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Duplicate texts

Hello, I am receiving duplicate text messages from multiple people and it sounds like they are receiving them from me as well. I am not sure where to start to figure out what is causing this but would like to solve it as I'm sure it is annoying every...

atorrin by Good Citizen / Bon Citoyen
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Which email is self-serve is linked to community

Hi @CS_Agent,  A self-serve account i manage has two emails (did a username change) they are   the username and the profile email. Which of these two is used to link the community profile to self-serve  for rewards? The rewards rules says:Your Commun...

mimmo by Retired Oracle / Oracle Retraité
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Resolved! Account questions!

Do all plans include nation wide data, all calling features such as call display, call forwarding, message centre or are all these features at extra cost?Is the network a throttling network?When I setup an account does my account only become active o...

connold by Good Citizen / Bon Citoyen
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Resolved! Apple iOS 12.1.3 update has cellular and WiFi problems

More info found here. I'm on android but this popped up in my news feed so I thought I would share just in case it might be helpful if we have any customers with similar issues.

Tav by Model Citizen / Citoyen Modèle
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unlocking iphone for use with public mobile sim

Hi,I've been a customer for a couple years, and happy with the service here.My blackberry I was using fully shutdown the other day, and I was given an old iphone 5c to replace that from a friend (not lost or stolen). I have tried to break it myself b...

drob by Good Citizen / Bon Citoyen
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Resolved! Does Samsung Guru 2 music work with public mobile?

Hey guys, I activated my prepaid plan today with the mentioned phone. But my phone can't connect to the network(red cross at the top left). When i try to do manual network searching it fails. Not sure what else could I try, Thanks. Worth mentioning t...

Leyu by Great Neighbour / Super Voisin
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Resolved! cancel plan change

I am new here. Just started into 5 days into 2nd month on plan for my daughter. Found she was not using near the data so planned to reduce it. Made own plan and selected 90 days. Chose to change immediately as all it said I would loose is legacy whic...

Grant58 by Good Citizen / Bon Citoyen
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