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Pack Your Bags – Public Mobile’s Trip to Mexico Contest is Here

Hello Community, We’re thrilled to announce an exciting contest to celebrate our new CAN/US/MEX plans. Get ready to spice up your travel plans because we’re sending a lucky winner on a trip for two to Mexico. Who’s Eligible?  New customers who purcha...

Ck_PM by Public Mobile
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[NEW] Important Update Regarding Recent Account Notifications

Hello Community, Due to a recent system issue, you may have received an email and/or text message incorrectly stating that your account is in suspended status. We apologize for any confusion this may have caused. To validate your account status, plea...

Ck_PM by Public Mobile
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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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Resolved! Auto Pay $2 not apply

I sign up with new line (for my dad) with my credit card at the store. when i get home, i change the credit card to my dad's credit card, i never get the the $2 credit. on the status, it mention my plan is on the "dynamic Autopay" not sure what does ...

cheowk by Good Citizen / Bon Citoyen
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Resolved! Confusion with credit card payments and taxes

Greetings, I do like the new revamped look of the website and self service portal but I was drawn to confusion with the wording and implementation of the included taxes with credit card payments. The bottom of the page states: "† Credit or Visa Debit...

mlerner by Good Citizen / Bon Citoyen
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Resolved! Phones were working then quit after changing from Rogers to PM

Hi all, SORRY up front for the long winded message! I started by signing up my step mom with PM on Oct.04 with no issues. Account was created and asked for new number. I did not provide an alternate contact number. Also I did nothing with our existin...

bgdkmckay by Good Citizen / Bon Citoyen
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Resolved! Call forwarding to Japanese SIM card

Is it possible to call forward to a Japanese number?  The call forwarding instructions note that the number must be a ten digit number.  Calling from Canada the number of digits including the international long distance prefix is likely to be over 12...

brianh by Good Citizen / Bon Citoyen
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Resolved! Xplornet and Public Mobile compatibility?

Hello, I have satellite internet through Xplornet in a rural area of Ontario at my cottage. Prior to switching to Public Mobile I was with Telus mobility and when I was at my cottage I would still be able to use my Telus mobility cellphone, connect t...

Apex by Great Neighbour / Super Voisin
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Travel to US

Travelling to the US for a single day and would like to use my Public Mobile service while there.  Is this possible, what is the upcharge and how do you pay it??

Grandpoco by Great Neighbour / Super Voisin
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Resolved! System maintenance

I've had no access to the self serve for about 2 hours now. Is this the case for everyone?

Resolved! Issue after Changing Phone Number: Cannot be Called or Receive SMS

Hello everyone, Glad to be on board with Public Mobile (PM)!I activated my SIM and have been enjoying PM for a few days now with a new phone number (automatically assigned when I created my account). Now, since I'm happy with the service, I have just...

BeJiTo1984 by Great Neighbour / Super Voisin
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Broken text/e-mail function. Help!

Hello,  I was out of town for two days and my text and e-mail function suddenly stopped working. I can still make and receive phone calls. I received a text from PM that there was a problem with their server but I have no way of getting in touch with...

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Hi just letting you know I didn’t cancel my account with public mobile. 

rajdeonauth by Great Neighbour / Super Voisin
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change a plan

Hello, I Tired to change my plan to the $60  traveller plan . I added the required amount to my account but for some reason it renewd my old plan and i think i am charged twice. Can someone look into my account and let me know.

maaz2018 by Good Citizen / Bon Citoyen
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Resolved! lost power while filling up the activation form

Hi guys,I was filling up my activation form, and before i could finalize to the last step, my toe accidentally touched the power button of my computer. now when i try to sign up again, the system is saying that my sim number is already used! it is no...

nowrin by Great Neighbour / Super Voisin
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Resolved! SIM Card Inserted Locked

I have an unlocked Samsung Galaxy S5 Neo. I just transferred and activated my Public Mobile accound. I tried to use the new SIM card in the phone but "Invalid SIM card. Network locked SIM card inserted". How do I fix it?

alicehung93 by Good Citizen / Bon Citoyen
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Resolved! Public or Koodo customer service

I have been trying to reconnect my Koodo account and I noticed Public and Koodo have the same customer service number. How can I differentiate between them?  PS I love Public, Koodo is an alternate from before. 

CrazyFairy79 by Good Citizen / Bon Citoyen
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Is self-serve down... or is it just me?

I haven't been on in a long time.  I click the self-serve link and I just see a blank page.  I see in announcements that maintenance is expected but that isn't supposed to start until the 7th and it is just the 5th.

bcsteeve by Great Citizen / Super Citoyen
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No call going out

Whenever I can any Canadian number, I got message that "We cannot call long distance call, add the long distance add-on". Why could this be happening? I am on the $10 plan.

roksana by Great Neighbour / Super Voisin
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Resolved! AutoPay didnt go through, and cannot manually pay

This morning my autopay didnt go through for some reason. I tried manually adding a payment over 20 times, tells me it cannot verify my card but my card has never changed. I removed the card and now I dont even have the option for autopay, just to pa...

lottie by Great Neighbour / Super Voisin
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Resolved! Activation

Hi there. I am activating my Public mobile simcard and trasferring my phone number as a new Public Mobile Client. I've bought a sim card, filled in all the forms at "activate.publicmobile.ca", have chosen my plan, filled in all the payment details an...

avserg by Great Neighbour / Super Voisin
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Resolved! Porting a phone number

I just switched from public mobile to chatr, however I’m unable to port my phone number over because I can not get my public mobile account number 

IsisIsmail by Great Neighbour / Super Voisin
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Resolved! Gifted a phone that is locked but I don't know to which carrier

Hello Everyone.  I hope someone can help me as I am stumped as to what to do about this. My aunt gifted me her old phone (Samsung S6 edge+) when mine started to go on the fritz.  I got it factory reset and everything but when I went to put in my publ...

Brandinium by Good Citizen / Bon Citoyen
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Resolved! Refer a friend $10 promotion rules?

"From Sept 23 – Oct 06, 2019 refer your friend to Public Mobile and both you and your friend will receive a one-time $10 account credit! See the Community for more details."Cut and pasted the above - but can't seem to find the rules.Somewhere I think...

BEER by Town Hero / Héro de la Ville
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Some issues with Data and Gmail

Browsing is fine, but when I need to send an email out it goes into Gmail's "Outbox" folder and it continually has a status that goes from "Sending.." to "Queued." Do I need to set something up?

QRWN by Great Neighbour / Super Voisin
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Resolved! Porting a number from Freedom mobile

Hi,I ported yesterday a number and it became active on PM SIM. Then I called Freedom Mobile to pay off all outstanding amounts and cancel the account. It was vaguely mentioned that they will port my number back Freedom. Now I see that I have PM numbe...

Andr123 by Good Citizen / Bon Citoyen
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Cost of plan

My plan is 45.00 a month why is my account being charged 57.50 to be topped up?

Lconnell by Great Neighbour / Super Voisin
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Resolved! Wrong calling plan

I’m new to public and just came on line...After reviewing my account I see that I was not put on the account which I purchased at the time . I came to Public because they offered a new plan which included calling to and from the U.S. I had ordered th...

1maleboxer by Great Neighbour / Super Voisin
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