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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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Re: Customer support during COVID-19 situation

Back to Anti-Vaxxers... Okay, so then you are going to be very careful with your kids and cross your fingers really tightly. So the guy who fairly recently brought his sick daughter back from extended holiday in ... Wait for it...Vietnam who it then ...

Rogers Refused to Unlock my phone. Illegial!

So I had an old phone that was locked to rogers. I used to use it when I was with them but I got a new galaxy s10 but thought it would be a great idea to keep my old phone as a backup phone. First I knew I had to unlock it so I contacted a rogers liv...

BearFBI by Deputy Mayor / Adjoint au Maire
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I can't wait for Starlink internet.

So there are a few people around the forum with terrible internet. And they always use their data instead of their home internet. And it really goes to show how we still dont have adequate internet even still in some small parts of Canada. Starlink i...

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BearFBI by Deputy Mayor / Adjoint au Maire
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Tips on Saving Money during Covid-19

Hey Everyone I been looking at my expenses and been trying really hard to cut down on many. I have a weekly MAX budget of $100 for food for two people. I talked with my landlord and we settled on an agreement that works for both of us $1,300 all incl...

brettster99 by Deputy Mayor / Adjoint au Maire
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Signature line

I went through my community settings to update my signature line on my post.  I think the signature line is reserved for Oracles.  For the time being, I will add my signature manually if I remember to add it. Have a better and better day!

popping by Retired Oracle / Oracle Retraité
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"Things Not To Do In Our Community"

Just putting this out there: Include advertising and promotion links that don’t relate to the discussion.Use profanity and obscenity—we can’t wash your mouth out with soap online.Misrepresent information (basically: don’t lie).Spam, cross-posting, or...

NDesai by Oracle
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Took a break from the Community....

....because, well, I'm in the Hospital This has not been a good day. After spending the last two weeks isolated inside the house, I decided to go horseback riding, something I haven't done in many, many years.It turned out to be a horrible big mistak...

mpcdesign by Mayor / Maire
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Starting something New.

So I just finished my undergrad last week. Finished my final English exam. Now I am looking ahead and see that I probably wont start graduate school for at least a year.  My thoughts are I need something to fill that time where I was working on schoo...

Naepalm by Mayor / Maire
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Windows 10 S Mode

After a recent (slightly heated) discussion and much reading/watching tech reviews I decided to give Win10S a fair shot. New laptop with Win10S, be still my beating heart, let's go for it. Conflicted with it right away - didn't think it needs to know...

Korth by Mayor / Maire
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Self Inflicted Haircuts

Anyone doing this these days?  I was tempted to buy one of these, but a mistake can take months to correct.  I think I will settle for the hippie look. https://www.costco.ca/conair-even-cut-dual-blade-diy-clipper.product.100300576.html 

Public Mobile Evangelicals

Hey community,  Has anyone else since joining public mobile felt the need to share with everyone they know. Or even answer Face book questions? I seem to be a bit overzealous. So glad to be part of this community and truly hope that PM continues to m...

Naepalm by Mayor / Maire
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Something is happening at PM... I feel It!

I feel like something is happening behind the scenes at Public Mobile. I can smell it ! Even the mods are saying this in a few announcements. This was from the announcement: Dave is making his final curtain call And this was from the latest announcem...

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BearFBI by Deputy Mayor / Adjoint au Maire
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Re: how to bring my existing phone number to public mobile

Please help. I am trying to port my number from Fido to chatr. The chatr support said there is already a port request for my number. I never request it. I 6 year ago I was with Rogers Then ported it to chatr and now I am with Fido. Today I want to sw...

Themanager1 by Great Neighbour / Super Voisin
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Any students on here who are relying on the Cerb extending to them?

I am a student and because of the covid 19 pandemic have been laid off of my classes and qualify for literally nothing in terms of financial assistance. I thought maybe I could make a message here to share any information I may find as well as what a...

Shadowfox by Great Neighbour / Super Voisin
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Ad for call hippo

You can do a Call from CallHippo. CallHippo providing you an advanced level of services for Callcenter and business phone systems. [title changed for accuracy...... Luddite]

ErikaSmith by Good Citizen / Bon Citoyen
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Port out

Hello, I just want to make the community aware if anyone ever consider of switching from PM.it's best to port out near the end of the billing cycle because PM will not give you the partial refund.I recently ported out 2 days into my billing cycle and...

azeem8 by Good Citizen / Bon Citoyen
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I'm so bummed... Likely Covid cancelation

So, I've been looking forward to a concert since last year. As someone with a disability I don't get out much. This social distancing is nothing on me, I'm a pro. I'm not even bored yet. But, the one thing I push myself and do anyway despite knowing ...

Pawprints1986 by Deputy Mayor / Adjoint au Maire
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online forms, passwords, etc

This is just a reminder about filling forms, creating passwords/usernames etc. Only YOU will know what info you enter, unless you share it. When filling out a form, after you have finished, before you hit the submit button, double or triple check all...

dude65 by Model Citizen / Citoyen Modèle
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Dot-mobile. Possible competition for PM.

So before switching to PM was even a thought i was waiting so long for the new Tiny Telecom Dot-mobile to Bring affordable wireless in canada. For years and years canada has had terrible prices for wireless service. I was always jealous of the U.S an...

BearFBI by Deputy Mayor / Adjoint au Maire
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motivate new members to participate in community

I joined PM, a few weeks ago, have questions about involvement on community, want to get involved, participate, contribute to community, because of being NEW going to make mistakes, not knowing how to navigate, post, etc....I'm finding some older mem...

fdrcamb519 by Deputy Mayor / Adjoint au Maire
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Operation and how discussion works.

One of the things that some of the community is discussing is things going off-topic. Can PM make it so that once something has been solved that chat is locked from any more posts?

Naepalm by Mayor / Maire
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Does anyone know of any REAL paygo plans for Alarm System.

So we decided to go through all our bills and cut unnecessary costs out. We canceled our landline, Switched to IPTV, Canceled alarm monitoring, Switched to PM, and so on. Ever since we canceled alarm monitoring we at least wanted the alarm to call ou...

BearFBI by Deputy Mayor / Adjoint au Maire
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Easter

I would just like to wish you and your family a Happy Easter from my family and I, don't eat to much chocolate!! 

Best TAG line!?

Alright wanted to have some fun here. I have noticed different tag lines on people's messages being here a whole two days. Some of them say "I'm not a MOD" some say "Welcome to Public Mobile."  What do you think is the best tag line. Like "Mikey Like...

Naepalm by Mayor / Maire
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How do I start making money in the community

So I'd really like to start helping out since it's really hard to get stuff done around here I used to be attack for Star choice then Shaw Cable and then well versed and most aptitudes electronics and troubleshooting so if anyone can give me some wor...

Solo by Good Citizen / Bon Citoyen
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Average cost of your plan

I was welcoming a new Public Mobile cohort, @Randeepsekhon80, and I had mentioned that some people here with Public Mobile have a great plan and rewards.I am very curious about what plan or add-ons and how much you pay a month. Average of course, bec...

mpcdesign by Mayor / Maire
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