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    Extra 1 Gb per month for 8 months promotion
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    freedom started having call quality issues - switched to PM and saved about 120$ per year.

    Nice to have caller name ID as well now (instead of just a number).

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    Big data users probably need better than 3.5G speed. But whatev.
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    I've been with public mobile for a while now on the 4GB at 3G Speed $30.
    Honestly its pretty freaking awesome. I rarely burn that much data and you only need LTE speeds when your watching youtube or trying to hotspot. For audio streaming and looking at reddit its totally decent.

    They really F*D up the advertising calling it "3G". Its still a low latency LTE connection just throttled throughput. You only notice on large bandwidth things.

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    Telus knows what it's doing with that advertising.
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    Bonus 2gb deal right now for new activations.
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    Anyone else on public mobile notice the charge on their cc statement says “koodo top up reapprov”? Signed my mom up for it in December so maybe it’s just the first one that has a weird merchant name?

    Brand new line not ported from Koodo or any other carrier.

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    The phone companies have given up any semblance of acting separate from their smaller carriers. Called Telus to re-negotiate my parents phone plans and Telus said flat out they don't offer anything below 80$ a month anymore and if I wanted to go cheaper I should switch their phones to koodo. Was rather surprised to hear it said outright. Told them I'd rather switch to rogers since Telus will call for a winback deal of 45$/20gb. After he disappeared on hold he came back with 70$/month / 20gb for their new Can-US plan which means no roaming at all for my parents in the US. Considering they spend the entire winter down there that was a huge win. So dumb of these games though.

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    No, mine still show as public mobile. But Telus owns Koodoo and Public both, so i could see the payment name being any of those, since it's all the same company.

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    The phone companies have given up any semblance of acting separate from their smaller carriers. Called Telus to re-negotiate my parents phone plans and Telus said flat out they don't offer anything below 80$ a month anymore and if I wanted to go cheaper I should switch their phones to koodo. Was rather surprised to hear it said outright. Told them I'd rather switch to rogers since Telus will call for a winback deal of 45$/20gb. After he disappeared on hold he came back with 70$/month / 20gb for their new Can-US plan which means no roaming at all for my parents in the US. Considering they spend the entire winter down there that was a huge win. So dumb of these games though.
    The telecoms play a lot of games, and it's brutal. Have I mentioned that the reason I love Public is because they have no customer service? That's my favourite feature of that sub-brand.
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    Yup. The CRTC forces them to offer "Low cost" plans. So they make Koodoo and Public with plans to meet those requirements. BUT then spend 0$ advertising it so people will still flock to the main Telus brand which is $$$. Such is life in Canadian telecom..

    +1 Fucking love Public Mobile web portal lets you do ANY change. No humans or sales bullshit.
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    Extra 2gb data for first 8 months on new activations.
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    Yeah every payment I make - shows as kodoo on my bank.statement... Never really understood why. But they also bomb me with crap about kodoo and Telus offers

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    Public Mobile has introduced 4G speeds for an increased plan cost. Good if you stream music on the go, as that's the only usegcase where I find any issues on my "sorta 3g" throttled speed.

    Haven't done a deep dive on value vs Koodo but suspect the difference is small.

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    Public Mobile has introduced 4G speeds for an increased plan cost. Good if you stream music on the go, as that's the only usegcase where I find any issues on my "sorta 3g" throttled speed.
    I already do this all the time with Spotify set to "High" Quality. I have yet to run into a case where the "3G like" speeds is a problem. Its still LTE latency just capped to 5-10mbps.

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    All include Unlimited Canada-wide Talk & Text.

    The new web portal is pretty nice though.
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    Ok so the Rogers fiasco has made me realize my Rogers plan from 9 years ago 5GB $50 is not a good deal anymore. I rarely use more than 4 gig of data. Been with Rogers for 18+ years

    I have my own phone S10 + and happy with it, I always buy my own phone. Looking at @jacky4566 chart I'm thinking I should just get the Public 6 or 10 gig 3G plan. Couldn't find the answer on their website, but do they charge data overages or just throttle back if you go over?

    Wife upgraded to a Bell 4G plan through her company 25gig no overages unlimited everything. I could hop on that at $45/mo

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    Public mobile is pre-paid only. If you go over you just get cut off. I prefer this but some people do not.

    If you use my referral credit you get $10 credit: RYONMO
    And i get 1$ off for every month you stay. #PyramidScheme
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    Yeah, data overages cannot happen. Good for a teen
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    Gonna pull the trigger on this this week. I'll prob be part of your pyramid scheme @jacky4566

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