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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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Setting Up Email, outgoing fail

How do I set up outgoing email?  Incoming is good (I think, but may be only coming in thru wifi) but outgoing email gets fail message: "smpt dot telus dot net" not responding.  Any ideas?  Thanks!! 

BB2 by Great Neighbour / Super Voisin
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WHY CHOOSE PUBLIC MOBILE?

Oh crap! You’re about to finish watching your favorite movie on Youtube, but it starts buffering.No. Don’t blame the Wi-Fi signal. And your brother playing Mobile Legends isn’t also to blame either. When you check the SIM’s card’s balance, you're sur...

shaker by Model Citizen / Citoyen Modèle
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Over 100k

Wow, Milestone here. The discussion part of the forum has hit over 100 thousand. Thats quite the milestone. 100 thousand threads. 100 thousand questions and posts regarding other phone related posts.  Im encouraged!   

Naepalm by Mayor / Maire
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No outgoing calls

Not lounge topics. Moved by mimmo

mimmo by Retired Oracle / Oracle Retraité
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Bell 30$ 2GB plan.

Lucky mobile subscribers are getting deals to move to bell. The offer is 30$ for 2GB. I found out about it while browsing redflag deals. https://forums.redflagdeals.com/bell-30-2gb-plan-2380501/ It would be great if PM had this plan. If bell can do i...

BearFBI by Deputy Mayor / Adjoint au Maire
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Anybody here joined dotmobile?

Interesting conceptI guess they are trying something similar to TextNow with the difference that all data is add-onsI noticed sometimes ago fongo offering data, fongo calls would be used against your data.TextNow has it great, totally free calls and ...

kselmak by Mayor / Maire
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Sad state of affairs in the world

This year didn’t take long to go from a normal year to what ever it is now. Im just so sad at this current time. I have cried more then once these last few days and have made it a point to just stay off the internet in general. Yet still I think it’s...

brettster99 by Deputy Mayor / Adjoint au Maire
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Homo sapiens

Is  public mobile hiding a customer service phone number from us that you can call and speak to an actual human? Yes or no  Be honest!

vsput by New in Town / Nouveau en Ville
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Hello

Hello

Rana1 by Great Neighbour / Super Voisin
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Roam Mobility Says Goodbye

Got this in my email yesterday. Covid is taking it's toll on small travel related companies, and I guess the writing was on the table for Roam Mobility... I've been a happy client with the same SIM since 2013, and their data buckets were still way la...

Nezgar by Mayor / Maire
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Internet Service Provider (GTA)

We all know the best budget mobile carrier. I would like to ask whats the best Internet Service Provider in GTA/Toronto? 

buang99 by Model Citizen / Citoyen Modèle
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Re: PM Sim for $2.99

Everyone:  Knowingly reusing a postage stamp is a criminal offence. While it may be a relatively minor offence,  this type of discussion encoruaging people to perform such activities is against the terms of service of this website.

Long-standing member

Who has been here the longest, who is active (still posting this year)?

CurtVD by Good Neighbour / Bon Voisin
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Public Mobile Origins

I'm new here and just getting used to the flow of things here...Anyone have interesting insights on the origins of Public Mobile, and perhaps also this community?  Thanks!

CurtVD by Good Neighbour / Bon Voisin
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Agenda 21/2030 - Covid19

Anyone read up on this? A simple Google search " Agenda 2030" brings it up on UN website. Something like 170 countries signed it. Note - I don't know if any of this is all real or not but it's peaked my interest. How well does the Covid19 pandemic ti...

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Jb456 by Mayor / Maire
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Early days of Public.

So i was playing around with the internet Wayback Machine and i found some interesting things that public used to offer before being bought by Telus.    Back then there was the option to pay in cash and through money transfer. It was called Public Ca...

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BearFBI by Deputy Mayor / Adjoint au Maire
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Telus porting phone#

I received an email from a moderator about the porting phone number.  Not sure if it was sent to me in error but they mentioned the Telus porting phone# is for internal use only and should not be posted in the community forum.

Triguy by Mayor / Maire
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How Do We...?

Hello Community, As you know I am a newbie and would like to know how does one figure out who is looking for a solution/needs help and how are we better able to provide a solution? Do we just pick them out of the announcements? Do we automatically se...

Eliza5 by Model Citizen / Citoyen Modèle
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I have found proof that JB456 is a Time Traveler !

@Jb456 First of all this is the oddest accepted solution ever in this forum. https://productioncommunity.publicmobile.ca/t5/Discussions/Free-1G/m-p/466070#M101929 Second of all why does it say Stay Safe ! How did you predict COVID to happen in 12-08-...

BearFBI by Deputy Mayor / Adjoint au Maire
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Retired Oracles

I noticed after being absent for a couple of days that retired oracles have been given just that the title of retired oracle. A long overdue recognition of their significant contributions to the community and a way for new members to give them the re...

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