Well done and thank you to everyone who submitted complaints to CCTS. Despite the phrase "while that point is not today" sounding ominous, Public Mobile surely realizes this uproar will happen again next time they try and pull something.
I believe the support team is currently experiencing an abnormally high number of requests due to activation issues with the FM promotion - hopefully a mod will get back to you soon.
This idea/issue was previously marked "Not for us" in a previous Public Lab thread here http://productioncommunity.publicmobile.ca/t5/Public-Lab/Abbreviate-carrier-name-from-quot-Public-Mobile-quot-to-quot-PM/idi-p/36848 and is further discussed here...
Interesting that this is coming to fruition, as it was alluded to last week by a RedFlagDeals user. I suspect the offer is realistically going to need to be a bit sweeter to move users from Public to the higher-priced Koodo plans.
Well, if the rumours turn out to be true, it seems like the next iPhone may not have as much space for a carrier name in the status bar at all... https://www.macrumors.com/2017/06/19/leaked-iphone-8-screen-protector/