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Telus-owned Koodo continues to give out free data to select customers, notifying them of the special freebie via text message. According to text messages sent out yesterday, Koodo says the free data is because summer is around the corner and they want customers to see this year as “your best summer yet!”. “To thank you...

Telus has unveiled a new environmental offer, "Buy One, Plant One," aimed at adding to reforestation efforts during Earth Month, when customers buy an Android device. From April 18 through May 16, Telus pledges to plant a tree for each new or certified pre-owned Android device purchased by new, returning, or business customers, committing to...

Koodo and Virgin Plus have launched a new promo plan that’s offering 75GB of 5G speed data. All flanker brands continue to keep tweaking their plans. Just last week Koodo had plans starting at $40 with 10GB data, but that has since disappeared, along with its $45/20GB, $50/40GB and $55/60GB promo plans. Virgin has eliminated...

Telus-owned Public Mobile has announced some free rewards that can be redeemed at Telus-owned Mobile Klinik stores. Public Mobile says as of April 9, customers can redeem two new rewards at no cost at Mobile Klinik stores. These rewards will be found in the Public Points rewards catalogue, available now: $130 Discount on CPO and...

Looks like all wireless carriers and their flanker brands are re-working their plans, and now Fido has joined the mix. Just over a week ago Fido was only showing a $34/50GB plan, but now that has been modified as two other plans are now part of the matrix. Here’s what’s available now:  $34/20GB 4G $44/50GB...

If you are on Telus-owned Public Mobile and you’re having issues with Apple’s iMessage and FaceTime on the iPhone, the company announced on Tuesday afternoon that a fix is coming. "We are aware that some of you are currently unable to successfully use iMessage and or FaceTime features, and we understand how frustrating this can...

With Telus-owned Public Mobile set to end its legacy rewards program next month, customers upset with the change have been sending in complaints to the Commission for Complaints for Telecom-television Services (CCTS). The CCTS confirmed with iPhone in Canada that it has been seeing complaints related to the new Public Points program since the beginning...

Last week, we told you Telus-owned Public Mobile had set an end date for its Canada-US promo plans for April 9, and as expected, we’re seeing the carrier revamp its plans as of today. The $34/50GB 5G plan has remained, but today brings back the $40/75GB 5G plan but without U.S. data roaming like before....

Telus-owned Public Mobile has updated its website on Friday to indicate an end date for its Canada-US talk, text and data promo plans. These Canada-US plans were in response to ongoing plans introduced by Quebecor’s Freedom Mobile. We already saw Public Mobile remove the U.S. portion of its $34/50GB plan (that matched Freedom temporarily) and...

The next total solar eclipse is set for April 8, and Rogers, Telus and Bell are ready ahead of the event, which is expected to put strain on cell networks in areas of complete totality, such as the Niagara Region, set to draw in one million visitors. The Niagara Region saw local authorities declare a...

The ‘Big 3’ telecoms continue to shift plans around at their flanker brands Fido, Koodo and Virgin Plus. Koodo and Virgin Plus no longer offer a $34/50GB plan, which has been a feeble attempt to match the ongoing $34/50GB 5G Canada-US offer from Quebecor’s Freedom Mobile. Fido still has the $34/50GB plan and it’s the...

Telus-owned Public Mobile recently announced its legacy rewards program is ending in May, with a switch coming to move customers to its newer Public Points program. Many customers who favoured the old rewards program were upset at this change, as it they felt it violated the original Public Mobile promise of keeping it around as...