@Nolan321 Freedom may be owned and operated by Shaw much like PM is owned and operated by Telus, but that in NO WAY means they are equivalent. Telus has had many years and a ton of $ spent on building out their network into the mature, reliable state that it's in today. Freedom by comparison is very young and their network coverage, while gradually improving, is nowhere near as good as the Telus network. In some areas it may be just as good or even better, which may be great for you if you rarely leave those areas.
As to your titular question: "is public mobile really better?" The answer, as always when comparing any two or more things is: "it depends". It depends on what your priorities are. If price is the main consideration, or $/GB, and you need a lot of data, then PM may not be a great choice. If you depend on instant* support and need the comfort of being able to call in and get help fairly quickly when issues arrive, PM may not be a great fit. If you need some "frill" features like VoLTE, WiFi calling, visual voicemail, PM may not be a great fit. If you need to be able to use your service outside of Canada and the USA, PM may not be a great fit. But if you are looking for a balanced plan including talk, text, and some amount of data, PM plans offer a great value (with the pick-3 90 day discounts taken into account; even more so for promo plans). If you depend on having a more reliable network that's going to, overall, get you signal in more places, and have a higher probability of calls succeeding (not perfect on any network, of course), then PM is a good fit.
Anyway, those are just a few of the factors. You have to weigh them all and make an educated decision as to what's important to you.
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