My mistake. The equivalent plan is actually $135/90 days, so it's actually $10 more per month. The plan that is $40 does NOT have Canada-wide texting. I also see no mention of picture/video messaging.
But they don't have LTE yet and that is what everyone is looking for now a days. When they implement LTE fully, tell me if they keep the same price lol
Comparing the $35 plan at Freedom: Public Mobile has Canada wide data coverage at no additional costs...
Did Freedom remove the "home zone" and "away zone"? I don't think so. Which means a lot of additional costs when travelling.
"If you find yourself outside of our HOME network, our low flat pay-per-use roaming rates of 15¢/min, 5¢/text, and 5¢/MB are the same across Canada or the U.S."
@MrAureliusR I believe that is a promo price for 12 months then it goes to full price.
Public Mobile is on Telus network so quality just cannot be comapared with hit and miss on freedom's coverage. Public Mobile offered 4GB/$38 back in November and that was the all time hit.
Are you guys even listening to what I'm saying? Clearly not. rakkaus -- I'm NOT switching. I WANT to switch, but PM doesn't have the value proposition yet. ute1978 -- I live in Toronto and rarely travel outside the city. When I do, I travel to Ottawa, which also has great coverage, so that has literally NO bearing on my decision.
Not to mention, everyone has this weird perception that Freedom's coverage is flaky. True, if you leave the city you lose coverage, but inside the city... I've never had a problem. I was with Koodo for a couple years, I've been with Wind for a couple, and over the last few months been considering jumping to PM but I don't want to lose my Canada-wide talk and NA-wide text. They also offer global text (which PM does, it seems to be included in the text plan which is nice).
First of all, as @NDesai said, Freedom is having this promo for only 6 months.
Second, PM is on the Telus Network which is the largest network in Ontario. In Canada, it is one of the big three.
Third, PM is on FULL LTE for all your data.
Fourth, Freedom was Wind Mobile and I know a lot of people who had Wind and switched. I also know a lot of people who are still with Freedom and complain about coverage and speed.
Fifth, Freedom has a long ways to go if they want to even compete with any of the big three (PM = Telus).
Sith, the reason PM is so great is the data basically rolls over for 90 days. So you have a basket of whatever data plan you decide and you buy it. You can use it anyway you want. When it is used it, you don't get any overage charges, your data just stops. Very safe.
For Christ sake, I can make and receive calls in the SUBWAY here in Toronto. Let's see someone do that on any other network. Not trying to be a shill for Freedom (I'm trying to leave them after all) but all this BS about flaky coverage... never seen it myself.
