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$42 ($40 with AutoPay) 4GB Province wide calling for existing Freedom Mobile Customers

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Nov 22, 2009
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PLEASE CLOSE THIS THREAD, THE DEAL EXPIRED TWO DAYS AGO.
Jr. Member
Oct 1, 2008
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Is this deal alive? I don't see anything on Public mobiles website.
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Dec 24, 2006
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Vancouver
How can they tell who ordered it before? Is there a place for the order number?
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Dec 12, 2009
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cataclyst wrote: I'm guessing they know which SIM cards were ordered during the eligible time window.
They go by order number which they can trace.
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Jan 10, 2007
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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.
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May 13, 2014
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Vancouver
will888 wrote: They go by order number which they can trace.
I wonder how they'll handle people who bought SIM cards from Walmart or WOW though - will they ask people to scan and email their receipt?
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Aug 3, 2014
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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.
True, their self service portal would have trivially easy to fix bugs sitting around for years instead.
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Jan 7, 2017
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Hamilton
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.
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.
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Raident wrote: I wonder how they'll handle people who bought SIM cards from Walmart or WOW though - will they ask people to scan and email their receipt?
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.
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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.
There is conspiracy theories out there, but no proven evidence.
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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.
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.

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.
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Nov 13, 2016
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Ontario
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.
If you have some time to read, Here is an interesting thread for you to read
https://productioncommunity.publicmobil ... td-p/80631
Still being robbed by Canada's Telecos.
Looking forward to dotmobile.
Newbie
Aug 11, 2008
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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,

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