Fido and Virgin Plus have debuted a $34/50GB plan in an attempt to half-match Public Mobile and Freedom Mobile.
On Friday evening, Fido (Rogers) added a $34/50GB 4G plan after Automatic Payments Discount for bring your own phone customers.
Virgin Plus (Bell) similarly added a $34/50GB 4G plan, with unlimited nationwide calling and SD video streaming. Virgin says their plan is for new activations only.
It looks like both of these wireless carriers want to re-live Boxing Day deals.
Of course, these $34/50GB plans do not match Public Mobile and Freedom Mobile right now, as their $34/50GB plan has 5G speeds and also covers talk, text and data in Canada and the U.S.
Also, Public Mobile’s $34/50GB Canada-US plan will end on Monday–it’s available for new and existing subscribers.
As of writing, Koodo (Telus) has not added a $34/50GB plan, but we expect them to match rivals shortly. Will we ever see Fido, Virgin or Koodo actually match with a Canada-US roaming option?
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Tbh Public is on the telus network and it works great but many forget Public has a reward program and e sim and the live voice mail now as well. I like that its creating competition
I used my points to buy add on calling and data in the US. It’s a small insentive, but a welcome one. I’m going to switch to this plan so I no longer need to do that anyway.
I’m still on the old reward system so I save on my bill monthly which I like more than the current reward system lol
Take that Rogers/Bell. You were about to have a new customer Because Public Mobile also condition their $34 plan to “new activation only”. I am preparing to leave PM because existing customers could not switch to that plan.
Then a few days ago. The plan is valid to all. The net effect? Public Mobile has kept a customer!
Smart marketing strategists. Don’t gamble too much with that “new activation only” game. You may very well lose more than you gain.
“… Automatic Payment Discount…” – No, thanks!
I just switched to Public Mobile from Fido after they hiked my bill $4 a month with no notification. This was about 14 months after I got the “two year” $25 Boxing day special. Apparently they weren’t so keen on locking in that pricing for the implied duration so after 15 years with them, I left without bothering to beg retentions for something better.
The sign up with PM wasn’t flawless. The eSIM didn’t activate without timing out but started working randomly after fiddling with the on/off toggle for the line. And the number port failed so I had to call to get that fixed. On the note of the latter, they don’t publish it widely, but after digging through their self help forums it seems there’s a number where you can actually talk to a real person at Public Mobile (They’re CSR’s that also handle Koodo and Telus) which is good to know. The service was also really effective and friendly.
The app and web experience of Public Mobile is poor compared to Fido, all kinds of glitches and bugs, but as long as it reliably provides data and voice services, I’m not too bothered. I do hope Public Mobile adds wifi calling soon and if certain anecdotes on Reddit are to be believed, that may happen.
I have a wifi calling toggle on my phone right now, but when I try and toggle it on I get an error. This does give me hope that it will become available soon.
I switched from Rogers – paying over $80 for 120 gb – 90 of which I never used. Now, in 2 years, I’ll be able to buy a new phone outright from the savings of switching.
I do agree – the website and mobile public app experiences are very subpar. The constant need for sms varification despite clicking on the remember this device gets frustrating.
One thing to keep in mind is that Freedom Mobile lets you use wifi calling in any country and it’s like if you are in Canada. With Telus and Koodo, their implementation of wifi calling is if you use it outside of Canada, it behaves like you are roaming.
I’m paying $18/month with Fizz mobile. I don’t need unlimited minutes and I only need 5 GB per month. Haven’t seen anyone trying to beat that price point
I have a $9 a month old rewards plan with PM coupled with 8 gigs for $8 a month with Fido ( 4 gigs inseego wifi device + free tablet with 4 free gigs customer appreciation deal ) total is $17 for 8 gigs. Long time RedFlagDeals player. I like the new plans but under $20 is better. What I hate most about paying for data you don’t need is also paying taxes on that extra data.
Meanwhile, I have a New Year’s Sale from Koodo at 30GB / $29 4G on BYOD. They implied a cost guarantee for 24 months, but it is month to month, so it will be interesting to see how long they intend of honouring it.
Went to Koodo from Virgin, who after 4 years, had absolutely no interest in matching competior’s prices for subscriber. Similarly, I had gone to Virgin after more than 15 years with Rogers, who had done the same thing.
I have no intention of going into the US anytime soon, while a recent visit to Mexico I covered with Wi-Fi and an eSim for $8 from AloSIM. So while an expanded roaming network on my account would be nice, its not essential.