Public Mobile is sometimes used as an advertising platform for Koodo and Telus. Telus owns and operates all three but sometimes try to encourage subscribers to move up the revenue tier.
I still get messages from Public about new Telus offers. In the past, there were some rather aggressive marketing campaigns to migrate people from Public to Koodo - an ongoing event which came in multiple waves of ever-increasing offers, was handled badly by Public and by Koodo, produced many passionate arguments, and left a lot of from-Public-to-Koodo customers very unhappy. (Some customers probably stayed with Koodo but a lot came right back to Public after a month or two, angry that they'd lost all their rewards/etc.)
They're a lot less aggressive with the marketing these days. I think it's now based on a sort of profiling, customers are "selected" and targeted because of whatever parameters, they are quietly given special one-time offers. I've never accepted any of them, always looks good right now up front, always looks bad when you work out the longer-term math and compare results.
But whenever Telus HQ issues directives, Telus subsidiaries automatically comply.
