PLEASE CLOSE THIS THREAD, THE DEAL EXPIRED TWO DAYS AGO.
Public Mobile
$42 ($40 with AutoPay) 4GB Province wide calling for existing Freedom Mobile Customers
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- blitzforce
- Deal Addict
- Nov 22, 2009
- 2782 posts
- 664 upvotes
- Toronto
- forexnut
- Jr. Member
- Oct 1, 2008
- 150 posts
- 70 upvotes
Is this deal alive? I don't see anything on Public mobiles website.
- Eidola
- Member
- Dec 24, 2006
- 346 posts
- 304 upvotes
- Vancouver
How can they tell who ordered it before? Is there a place for the order number?
- will888
- Deal Expert
- Dec 12, 2009
- 29541 posts
- 20470 upvotes
- Big Daddy G
- Member
- Jan 10, 2007
- 201 posts
- 31 upvotes
- Calgary
Does Telus throttle anything for Public Mobile customers? I noticed recently that two phones beside each other, one on Telus and one on Public Mobile had very different experiences in a low reception area.
- Raident
- Sr. Member
- May 13, 2014
- 765 posts
- 450 upvotes
- Vancouver
- hvwkzq
- Deal Fanatic
- Aug 3, 2014
- 6089 posts
- 4352 upvotes
True, their self service portal would have trivially easy to fix bugs sitting around for years instead.wearysky wrote: ↑ Shrug - I don't claim to know how they separate their business units internally... But at the very least they appear to have separate support and marketing deparments, not to mention IT (because if Telus was giving them full access to their full resources for IT, their self service portal wouldn't have trivially easy to fix bugs sitting around for well over 6 months). It's not an unfair assumption, IMO, to think they are running as at least a semi-autonomous unit.
- differing
- Member
- Jan 7, 2017
- 270 posts
- 289 upvotes
- Hamilton
I doubt it. When debating corporate conspiracies, ask: "does this make or save the company enough money to justify the cost of implementing this scheme?" If they're going to setup complex throttling mechanisms for their customers, it better have a clear mechanism to profit or it probably doesn't exist.Big Daddy G wrote: ↑ Does Telus throttle anything for Public Mobile customers? I noticed recently that two phones beside each other, one on Telus and one on Public Mobile had very different experiences in a low reception area.
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- will888
- Deal Expert
- Dec 12, 2009
- 29541 posts
- 20470 upvotes
Not sure how they will handle this. In the past, the grace they offered for online SIM orders was for lag time in receiving the shipment. No such excuse when buying from the store. I guess you pays your money, you takes your chances.
- will888
- Deal Expert
- Dec 12, 2009
- 29541 posts
- 20470 upvotes
There is conspiracy theories out there, but no proven evidence.Big Daddy G wrote: ↑ Does Telus throttle anything for Public Mobile customers? I noticed recently that two phones beside each other, one on Telus and one on Public Mobile had very different experiences in a low reception area.
- will888
- Deal Expert
- Dec 12, 2009
- 29541 posts
- 20470 upvotes
Throttling is cheap, it is just a few clicks of the mouse button to do it. Public Mobile is currently offering LTE plans with throttled 3G speed, 2.5 mbits maximum. They are doing this to make their full LTE speed plans look more valuable. If this was expensive they won't do it. The cost of this setup is nothing.differing wrote: ↑ I doubt it. When debating corporate conspiracies, ask: "does this make or save the company enough money to justify the cost of implementing this scheme?" If they're going to setup complex throttling mechanisms for their customers, it better have a clear mechanism to profit or it probably doesn't exist.
The scalability of the network does not end with controlling speed. A couple of weeks ago, somebody turned off tethering by mistake and every customer at Public Mobile was unable to tether. I put in a ticket and a Telus tech called me and we did troubleshooting over the phone to see what was causing the issue. He found the problem to be a tethering related setting that was turned off by mistake. He turned it back on and everything was working right away.
- zhadj030
- Member
- Nov 13, 2016
- 457 posts
- 652 upvotes
- Ontario
If you have some time to read, Here is an interesting thread for you to readBig Daddy G wrote: ↑ Does Telus throttle anything for Public Mobile customers? I noticed recently that two phones beside each other, one on Telus and one on Public Mobile had very different experiences in a low reception area.
https://productioncommunity.publicmobil ... td-p/80631
Still being robbed by Canada's Telecos.
Looking forward to dotmobile.
Looking forward to dotmobile.
- shinuha
- Newbie
- Aug 11, 2008
- 50 posts
- 1 upvote
- London
Hi there,
How long does it usually take to get my 12gb? I signed up thursday and still says 400mb on my account.
Thanks,
How long does it usually take to get my 12gb? I signed up thursday and still says 400mb on my account.
Thanks,