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[NEW] Blog Post: Phone Recycling

The Call to Recycle: Transforming Old Phones into New Opportunities In an age where technology evolves at lightning speed, most of us have old mobile phones collecting dust in drawers. But what if those forgotten handsets could help reduce waste, sav...

J_PM by Public Mobile
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Top Contributors - Congratulate

Hey Community, Thank you to everyone who contributed to the great conversations this month! We'd like to encourage community members to congratulate other members and share comments under this thread. However, we will keep the Top Contributors announ...

J_PM by Public Mobile
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Best Buy 10 GB for $40

I feel an affinity for PM but this seems like a really good deal.Same price as I am paying here but double the data? https://mobilesyrup.com/2021/03/31/best-buy-mobile-offering-10gb-40-plans-stores/

rossputin by Model Citizen / Citoyen Modèle
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1 year with Public Mobile.

Just a couple of days ago marked my first year with Public Mobile ! I have to say it has been an amazing ride ride ! and Ive had no major issues since day one other than a few minor service unrelated issues that the moderators gladly helped me with. ...

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BearFBI by Deputy Mayor / Adjoint au Maire
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Freedom Mobile plan looks decent

Don't you think?https://mobilesyrup.com/2021/03/25/freedom-mobile-offering-24-3gb-prepaid-plan-with-unlimited-canada-wide-calling-global-text/ 

rossputin by Model Citizen / Citoyen Modèle
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Anyone Ever heard of Fonus Mobile !!?

What the heck is this. Fonus | Unlimited data, calls & texts. $30 a month. (fonusmobile.com) This is new to me. 30$ a month for unlimited Data,Talk,and Text. Canada is on the available country list.  Does anyone know anything about Fonus ? Dont think...

BearFBI by Deputy Mayor / Adjoint au Maire
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Improvement suggestion

21/03/2021 10:58Outgoing Text      SMS$0.0020/03/2021 10:41Web     0.008 MBMB$0.0020/03/2021 12:09Web     0.004 MBMB$0.0020/03/2021 4:18Incoming text Looking at my Usage:- I find TIME representation confusing. Make it either 24 clock (preferable) or ...

Meow by Mayor / Maire
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Re: Public mobile shutting down?

LOL @darlicious  "When you shop at Superstore do they tell you not to shop at no frills" The answer is "no", because you're already spending more for the same product at Superstore. It's commendable that you feel the way you do, and I'm glad it makes...

Spudster by Deputy Mayor / Adjoint au Maire
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Archiving lounge threads

@donuts_waffles Hey what happened to your saving money with public mobile thread? Actually what just happened to any or all of your posts since Christmas? Weird.

Point Roberts

@AE_Collector wrote:YES Point Roberts IS in a different country but it isn't even attached to the USA, its attached to CANADA! And gets its water and electricity from Canada ...Border security at Point Roberts has always been very loose. There's only...

Korth by Mayor / Maire
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anyone ever get 1000 solutions???

Hi keeners, I just noticed that if i hover cursor over someone's username, it shows their posts/bravos/solutions and start date and the such. It got me wondering, has anyone achieved 1000 solutions in this place? I've seen many in the 900's (mostly t...

crustylady by Great Citizen / Super Citoyen
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Re: Mystery boyfriend?

The new mystery to me @Anonymous  is not the developing story with the OP, but how @darlicious  boyfriend loses his phone on average every 6 weeks. Let me guess, is he one of the following: ParatrooperCliff diverHang gliderCave jumperStreakerFlying s...

HALIMACS by Mayor / Maire
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Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Top of the mornin' to ya! Here's a wee bit a craic for all of ya missin' the luck of the irish today. Sláinte!

Do you think TELUS will eventually get rid of Public Mobile

I personally think that the 3rd tier carriers are going to be absorbed into the 2nd tier carriers before much longer, especially since Freedom Mobile will no longer exist in a year or two now that Rogers owns them. TELUS really only has Public Mobile...

WoozyPolarBear by Model Citizen / Citoyen Modèle
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What I see is missing, exchange of Recipes for cooking

There should be something, like if someone has a great recipe for food, would be awesome to exchange or share. I tried this Cabbage Roll but was more like a Stew, tasty and absolutely delicious. Even Art stuff, something to enhance community and the ...

makkahn28 by Mayor / Maire
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Orange is going red

The assimilation of the little 3 will soon be complete.   https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-rogers-seeks-to-buy-shaw-for-204-billion-in-deal-that-would-transform/#c-image-0

will13am by Oracle
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Prices of Wine

Hey  @darlicious, Thanks for reminding me how much effort is put into what amounts to the value of a lower-end bottle of wine. But hey - that's not why we do it. It's all about the satisfaction in knowing that others have been helped along the way. M...

HALIMACS by Mayor / Maire
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February Stats and Stuff

As each months Top Contributors post/thread gets more and more vague I thought I wohld throw out a little insight into the numbers for February. These are generalized as there was the loss of posts/stats early in the month and I did do some manual co...

Will Public Mobile follow

Let's hope so.  Maybe with enough feedback, the price increase will be rolled back.   https://mobilesyrup.com/2021/03/09/koodo-reverts-canada-wide-calling-provincial-calling-change/ 

SMS verification - other free options that work?

I can't be the only person to have run into this, so I thought I'd ask here. I didn't see anything super relevant via search So, currently my issue is gmail though other services are starting to request this too, I've been delaying sign ups I'm inter...

Pawprints1986 by Deputy Mayor / Adjoint au Maire
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Domain names

What determines the price of domain renewal? Because last year domain renewal prices were much cheaper than this year. Does a domain registrar have to warn about price changes?

Nasmerk by Good Citizen / Bon Citoyen
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Re: Name

@darlicious wrote:Lets try this again..... @Anonymous That was a typo so thanks for correcting my outing by outing.....I won't mention @BearFBI 's last name to jog your memory but I don't think mentioning one's first name is a big privacy/security is...

dabr by Mayor / Maire
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