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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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Pandemic preps

The PM's wife may be infected.  ON is closing schools for 2 weeks.  The big cities are starting to feel the effects.  Anyone elevate their state of readiness for the possibility of a few weeks of containment?  Are pantries filled with dried foods and...

will13am by Oracle
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Phones and Kids

Hi Everyone, I don't have any kids, but I'm at the stage in my life where that's something that could be coming up sooner rather than later. I was wondering if anyone here has much experience with what it's like for kids to have phones and what good ...

dnadolny by Great Citizen / Super Citoyen
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Internet failure

Wifi connected but I cant access internet. Always showing sign in to network and 500 internal server error notification. Somebody can help me fix this problem.Thankyou in advance

Other services/sites to save money

Hi Everyone, This seems like a good community to ask about money-saving tips in general. I saw there was a post about grocery stores. Does anyone have other websites or services that are good options? I'm really liking PM so far, is this kind of mode...

dnadolny by Great Citizen / Super Citoyen
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Re: Transfer data from one account to another

@Milk wrote:But I'm always irked with one of the members of my family that always seems to have the need to  speculate about things that most of the time  are incorrect and have caused friction.@Milk is it @BEER, @Water, or some other beverage?  

srlawren by Retired Oracle / Oracle Retraité
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Some Koodo accounts affected by data breach

Came across this article about Koodos being a victim of a data breach from Feb 2020 and got some data from 2017.  Apparently they have a port block process in place to protect those customers.   Article here  https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/sec...

YVR by Model Citizen / Citoyen Modèle
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Re: Shady Business

If I was in your shoes, I would get it changed based on the principle! And pity the fool who tried a fast one on a senior! Slap that fool! 

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mpcdesign by Mayor / Maire
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Reminder: Daylight Savings Time 2020

Reminder: Daylight Savings Timeat 2am your local standard time turned forward 1 hour to Sunday, March 8, 2020, 3 am local daylight time instead (unless you live in Saskatchewan, the one province that does not follow daylight saving----lucky you guys!...

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mpcdesign by Mayor / Maire
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Completely new and curious!

Hi I'm just curious and intrigued, not sure what kind of questions I'm qualified to answer but the community idea is fun! But I suppose my question is how often do you find the need to ask/ check in on what's happening? thanks!!

Rachelsloan by Good Citizen / Bon Citoyen
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Anyone a Bond fan here?

These are my Bonds with my favorite 1st: Sean ConneryDaniel CraigRoger MoorePierce BrosnanTimothy DaltonGeorge Lazenbyhttps://www.007.com/characters/the-bonds/Bond "No time to die" opening now delayed till October. 

gblackma by Mayor / Maire
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Next Promo

My wife wants to switch to PM but missed out on that last great promo ($10 off for 8 months)Anyone have any inside info on when the next great promo might happen?

Gerry_P by Great Citizen / Super Citoyen
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Best cheap phones

Here is an article recommending cheap phones  Prices are in US dollars.https://www.wired.com/story/best-cheap-phones/

Triguy by Mayor / Maire
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Public Mobile Text Message Numbers and types of Messages Sent.

Since joining Public Mobile I have personallly received text messages from 4 different numbers. And learned about other ones sent out from questions answered. They seem to fall into 4 categories.  I'm going to attempt to list the numbers, categories ...

gblackma by Mayor / Maire
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New to the Community !

Hi, as new customer, I hope it will be a sucess with Public Mobile.I 'm give it a try !nabolito.

nabolito by Great Neighbour / Super Voisin
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Victoria for a day without a car

Hi PM family, I will be in Victoria for the day on Tuesday, March 3rd when my hubby is doing some work stuff there.. Would appreciate some suggestions on where to look around and eat? We will be staying close to the Empress Hotel area. i hear the Vic...

Sarlye by Great Citizen / Super Citoyen
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POP or IMAP settings......need to know what they are????

Here is a handy website to show settings some of the most used emails.  Click here. Also if you want to know what your regional Telco settings are. Scroll to the bottom of the web page and operate the scroll down as in picture and find yours!!    

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iPhoneUser by Model Citizen / Citoyen Modèle
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Lucky Mobile Offer

Hi all, Looking for some advice, I recieved an offer from Lucky Mobile for $40 8GBs of data and then unlimited after that. Wondering if I should bother with trying to get Public Mobile to match it, or if that is even something they will do for us? Ho...

lucket1030 by Great Neighbour / Super Voisin
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How vulnerable are you on Whatsapp?

I found this article that says anyone can access WhatsApp group chats without permission, through a Google search.  So be careful what you post while using it. See the link here . 

gblackma by Mayor / Maire
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Lounge lurking

https://productioncommunity.publicmobile.ca/t5/The-Lounge/bd-p/The_Lounge Right at the top of the page a banner sayeth:"Here are questions other Community members have on this topic. Ask your question or give an answer to earn up to $20 every 30 days...

Korth by Mayor / Maire
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The community

I wanna thank public mobile over & over it was about time we had you wish I learnt of it sooner now I'd really wish to be on top of things around here, & I was wondering if we're looking to have some means of notifications of announcements in communi...

Died by Great Neighbour / Super Voisin
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