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jayp_1
Good Neighbour / Bon Voisin
You're a mobile company and your site works terribly on a phone. As a developer, I would be embarrassed to be associated with such a poorly designed and developed site.
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skmkenn
Model Citizen / Citoyen Modèle

I agree that the site could definitely use some TLC when it comes to mobile access, especially self-serve. Actually, I'd like to see the entire self-serve interface overhauled sooner rather than later, I might have to throw together some mockups in Photoshop...

will13am
Oracle
Oracle

Sadly, the self serve portal is pretty wonky on a PC also.  More importantly than that there seems to be no progress on issue resolution.  

Georgeleg04
Good Citizen / Bon Citoyen

It's not just that. On all 3 of the phones I activated for me and friends there have been problems. On mine I have been charged multiple times (3 times) and yet to be refunded. The whole company needs to be fired 

mimmo
Retired Oracle / Oracle Retraité

I believe the self serve is based on koodo's old selfserve so i cant see why they cant just either change the logo and colours on the old koodo site or even the new koodo site and transfer the inteface over.  both are pretty much have similar features and are teh same company.koodo.pngover...

skmkenn
Model Citizen / Citoyen Modèle

@mimmo You're correct, as far as I can tell the self-serve system that Public Mobile uses is based on Koodo's old self-serve system with a few tweaks for the way things operate here. In fact, there was some terminology in the self-serve portal a while back that was indentical to the way it was worded on Koodo's site even though it didn't apply on the Public Mobile side although it's been cleaned up since then.

CalvinW
Deputy Mayor / Adjoint au Maire

The self serve portal is a mess, regardless of the platform you are using. Dated and clunky 

 

bbdata
Model Citizen / Citoyen Modèle

My guess would be:

  1. the developers have other priorities
  2. there are no staffed developers at all
  3. there's no budget set aside

Or a combination of it all. For example, there is budget, but it is allocated towards something of higher priority.

 

So suggesting to fire developers without knowing what's going on isn't really a useful suggestion.

skmkenn
Model Citizen / Citoyen Modèle

I would assume that there is a small team of developers who are assigned to maintaining the Public Mobile website and self-serve / activation portals, or there are engineers higher up from TELUS or Koodo who look after it at a lower priority than either of those two brands.

 

For Public Mobile to provide a great customer experience, I do believe the self-serve and activation sites need a good overhaul not just visually but on the back-end code wise as well to resolve issues that are typically encountered across various browsers and devices. Fixing the activation portal especially to lower the amount of failed activations due to the site erroring out for example would lead to increased satisfaction for new customers and lower the amount of requests that are sent to the moderator team.

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