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Public Mobile announces data offerings and $15 Unlimited Talk plan

By on March 31, 2011 at 9:46am in Mobile News, Public Mobile


Public Mobile has announced a couple of new features to their Unlimited offerings. First, a $15/month Unlimited province-wide talk plan. This will be available starting on April 1st and will be a permanent plan. Public Mobile aims to rid people of their home phone and also those Prepaid cards. Public CEO Alek Krstajic stated that “At $15 a month, there is now a real alternative to prepaid cards. No more counting your minutes, topping up or standing in line to buy prepaid cards”.

Next and most importantly is a $5 Unlimited email. We’ve been saying data will be coming to Public Mobile for months and it’s almost now here. They will officially be launching their data services sometime in April with a QWERTY device called the “Buzz” along with this $5 Unlimited Email service add-on. Incredible price for data but there is no word on what the cost of this “Buzz” device will be or what it looks like.

So it seems for $40/month you can have Unlimited Talk, Text and Data with Public Mobile. In their release Public says this is ” just another way Public Mobile is changing the face of Canadian telecommunications.”

Related posts:

  1. Public Mobile intros a “$25 unlimited Canadian and U.S. talk and text” plan
  2. Public Mobile drops $40 Unlimited plan to $30 until November 7th
  3. Public Mobile adds Unlimited Province wide calling to their plans
  4. Public Mobile adding Unlimited International texting July 15th to $40 plan

Discussion

22 comments for “Public Mobile announces data offerings and $15 Unlimited Talk plan”

  1. all on CDMA, wonderful, i can download emails at 2 Kbps

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    Posted by chall2k5 | March 31, 2011, 9:50 am
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    • EVDO is 3.1 Mbps. Quick enough for some web browsing. Many people with a blackberry are still limited to 3.6 Mbps on HSDPA.

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      Posted by zorxd | March 31, 2011, 10:03 am

  2. Having unlimited email isn’t everything. You can only just check emails but can’t browse YouTube, Facebook, use navigation, etc unlike at Mobilicity where its just $10 unlimited data which gets you everything including no restrictions on tethering. Just an example I’m throwing out here.

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    Posted by Emzine | March 31, 2011, 9:52 am
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    • Not everyone is a slave to Facebook, or watches Youtube videos on their phone.

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      Posted by JSmith | March 31, 2011, 9:54 am

  3. At least they are moving in the right direction. Solid plans, real customer service, less fees, and pricing that makes sense. Im all for it!

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    Posted by JSmith | March 31, 2011, 9:53 am
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  4. They are moving in the right direction but until their quality of phones, reception, coverage etc. Improves this company has a very long way to go….

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    Posted by Fenrir767 | March 31, 2011, 9:59 am
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  5. I think this is amazing, just got an $86 bill from one of the other guys because I used 12 minutes of long distance, called them and all they offered me was a more expensive plan.

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    Posted by Steve | March 31, 2011, 10:00 am
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    • ummm.. so what company in Canada charges you over $7/min for long distance?

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      Posted by Bill | March 31, 2011, 10:04 am

  6. Even though their phone line up is squiffy, $15 a month for unlimited province wide calling is amazing.

    That’s a landline alternative for sure. Even if you just have the phone sitting at home.

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    Posted by Terry | March 31, 2011, 10:03 am
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    • You just said exactly what I was thinking. This is fantastic for those who have great reception in their home!

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      Posted by sacksy | March 31, 2011, 10:13 am

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    Posted by AKA | March 31, 2011, 10:05 am
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  8. Just another great reason to hold off on those long term contracts for a few more months

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    Posted by SmithJ | March 31, 2011, 12:08 pm
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  9. Does that mean the evo will finally come to canada..imagine public getting an evo 3d…

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    Posted by Mark | March 31, 2011, 12:19 pm
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  10. You people are complaing about $15 unlimited talk? are you people insane,thats the cheapest deal in north america.

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    Posted by George | March 31, 2011, 1:42 pm
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  11. “$40/month you can have Unlimited Talk, Text and Data with Public Mobile”
    I don’t see how unlimited email qualifies as unlimited data. It’s indeed a very nice price, but what about simple browsing? or MMS? or A-GPS/maps service? that needs more than just unlimited email

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    Posted by artstate | March 31, 2011, 3:08 pm
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  12. Unthinkable. Way to go…..

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    Posted by Murugesan | March 31, 2011, 3:28 pm
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    • No new entrant should create a plan without caller id. It doesn’t make sense.

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      Posted by Murugesan | April 1, 2011, 8:19 am

  13. Can’t wait to see what Chatr does to respond to public mobile offering data.

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    Posted by Steve | March 31, 2011, 6:31 pm
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  14. Where do I start? Signal is very weak inside home (Outremont) and apartment (NDG)I had to go out in the balcony or been glued to the window to get a signal. ZTE C70 piece of crap, no noise cancellation, you have to scream for the other people to be able to hear you. Changed phone and went with Kyocera G2GO, worst piece of crap, the reception was even weaker than the C70 and was a total pain using the keyboard that was made for children. Second does anybody knows what is the level of radiation that the crappy antenna in these phones emits?

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    Posted by yadeed | April 1, 2011, 1:58 am
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  15. yadeed// that never happened to me, you look like ur the only one with that kidna issue. stop complaining for ur wrong use of the phone. i get signal fine in my basement.

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    Posted by Jerry | April 1, 2011, 3:32 am
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  16. email is not full data.

    i’m posting this from my wind mobile device tethered to my home pc, using it as a full ISP since i just moved and don’t have DSL set up. go wind mobile!

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    Posted by skrpg.com | April 1, 2011, 10:33 pm
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  17. k first off PM has UNL DATA for $10/mth and 2nd UNL ontario wide calling for $15!!! are you kidding me that is by far the cheapest plan in north amaerica…nobody in the market has a plan close to this…so take PM for what they are…they advertise there not for everyone…if your ifan who wants to sign a 3 yr contract and pay $80+/mth for an $800 iphone then go for it…clearly thats not there market…they are simple and after ppl who want a change whether thats getting rid of there home phone or prepaid phone or even switching there contracted phones to PM and want simple cheap plans with no contracts and good decent phones to use in the mean time…If you dont get then your a tard.

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    Posted by phoneguy | June 24, 2011, 11:35 am
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