@benfatto wrote:Better to ask them just to pay your PM plan; it's likely cheaper than their cost anyway.
Some corporate plans are actually quite awesome, better than anything available to normal consumers. Even better than what PM offers. Especially if they encompass tons of data or international roaming.
Although, yes, most Corporations want to be Big Corporations so they automatically deal with the Big Carriers and basically just get a small discount on top of the worst deals available.
Some corporate plans are based on employer-vs-employee price match or percentages. If so, being an employee who pays half the cost of an expensive Rogers plan is not as smart as being an individual who pays full cost of a cheap Public Mobile plan.
Some corporate plans are fully paid for by the employer. If so, then free is less than you'd pay at Public Mobile or anywhere else. Unless the free service doesn't meet your personal needs or comes with strings attached. There's always the option of doing both - work pays for work number, you pay for your number - keep them separated and not have to worry about losing your phone number if/when you leave your job. Dual-SIM phones (or even just two phones) make this workable.
Once a number is ported away from Public Mobile it terminates the PM user account - so all available funds in account are lost, all add-ons attached to account are lost, all Loyalty and Referral rewards attached to account are lost, and the PM SIM card is permanently deactivated. These things might be worth saving or using instead of wasting, even worth giving (along with the phone number) to a friend. Or they might not matter if it's a somewhat "new" account (with a random phone number) which could easily be started again (with a random phone number) at any time.
