[Goodbye 32-bit, WiFi Calls
Tilo Chopin
I just saw another service provider (Freedom Mobile) plan which is $119 per year with 15GB data and it makes all plans by Public Mobile look like a joke. So, time to move on. I am happy to forgo my rewards and all.
Freedom has WiFi Calling, available globally.
Freedom has a permanent plan price guarantee.
Freedom offers phone financing, with significant subsidies.
Freedom has unlimited throttled data on all plans except annual prepaid.
Freedom has live customer care, reachable through any of 4 or 5 channels.
Freedom allows existing customers to switch to promo plans without hassle.
Freedom has roaming options, useable in 81 countries, starting at $20/30days.
Freedom is a market disrupter bringing meaningful competition to the Canadian wireless market.
I wonder what's your rational behind this comment. And why do you think I am obsessed with GB? With the same logic, I can ask why you are obsessed with keeping yourself blind to PM's BS? When the whole world looks at what kind of value they are getting for the money they are paying, then where comes the logic behind being obsessed with GBs? if not internet, then what else do you expect from a telecom company? like doing your laundry?
It's my choice whether I use the internet or not (which I usually don't) but it doesn't mean that the service provider can sell me peanuts when others are giving me option to use 1 or 2GB data or not. And your use case be differnt than someone else's. So, rather than jumping on conclusions and speaking for others, how about keeping your fanboyism at check?
And how about these?
Freedom has WiFi Calling, available globally.
Freedom has a permanent plan price guarantee.
Freedom offers phone financing, with significant subsidies.
Freedom has unlimited throttled data on all plans except annual prepaid.
Freedom has live customer care, reachable through any of 4 or 5 channels.
Freedom allows existing customers to switch to promo plans without hassle.
Freedom has roaming options, useable in 81 countries, starting at $20/30days.
Freedom is a market disrupter bringing meaningful competition to the Canadian wireless market.
WHY are you people so obsessed with all that GB???? Do you use phone to watch movies? Stream music? Play games?
Nobody have any computer anymore??? I do not care for GB and would gladly gift my data to anybody but pubicm does not have that option.
Hey @Handy1, nothing against fan boys. I talk highly of so many good products like Osprey backpacks, Patagonia products and so on. PM deserved that when it was catering to a large segment of people. We all wanted PM to keep the good work going but supporting something when it stops caring about its users, that becomes problematic. I am sorry that Freedom is not in your area but I hope you find a better alternative. I head that PC mobile also have good plans right now but of course they are a bit pricier. I am paying $9 per month for almost 2GB internet and unlimited calling. I get Freedom reception even in Banff and Jasper when I am hiking. It's badat my work building though. haha... but WiFi calling helps in those situations.
But they also realize people who stick with the lowest-price plan available are stubbornly resistant to paying more. $15 (or legacy $10) is the cheapest plan on the cheapest third-tier provider, subscribers who don't want to pay more, providers who don't want to offer it (but are obligated to comply with CRTC mandate).
So I think it was their regular $25 plan with a bolt-on data provision. Specifically meant to retain the small segment of their customers who might otherwise be tempted to grab the Lucky promo. Hard to say since an actual plan page with actual plan specifics and small print was never made available, it was just a shady SMS offering. I didn't take it because I've seen PM blunder and disrupt and ruin many happy customers with half-assed SMS offerings in the past.
I am not a heavy internet user and in the wifi zone almost 90% of my time. So, I was on $15 plan with PM and with rewards etc, I was paying even less. I know I will be paying a couple of bucks more with Freedom, I will get more than which won't expire if I don't use each month.
Thanks for explaining this. While I agree that freedom is good for their zones, I am not a frequent traveler and my whole city falls in one of their zones. When I won't be in their zones, I often use VoIP which is a godsend service. But I still agree with you it comes at its own cost and before jumping the ship, its smart to see how and where one will be using their service.
@ahand Totally agree, for myself I am trying to stay under the $40 mark for me. I'm grateful they still have that. Though the ones recently popping up are above that mark. Hopefully Boxing day will reveal some goodies.
And it always, always struggled with one important problem. Limited coverage. Awesome deals from within any of their core urban areas to any other of their core urban areas. Awful coverage and roaming costs anywhere outside those areas.
If you are within one of their "zones", all the people you call are in one of their "zones", and all the people you expect to call you are within one of their "zones" then you can score on amazing offers, low prices, big data, awesome everything. They do indeed consistently offer far better deals (within this coverage area) than Public Mobile or any other operator can provide.
I wouldn't argue the pro-vs-con merits of their plan. If you think it's a better deal then grab it. But first take a closer look at the maps and the small print details and the various per-minute per-text per-megabyte costs which you might be facing. Maybe this time around it's a flawless deal so grab it, but after observing Freedom Mobile for many years I think that there's always going to be a hidden catch somewhere.
I agree but I don't see PM offering any competitive plans for lower segment users. I tried last year but they didn't bother offering anything, so its a goodbye. I would have loved to stay with PM if they would have matched it at least.
Edited to add: He's been having the problem longer than I have. It seems the newer the model phone, be it Galaxy (his is a Galaxy S21FE - mine is a Galaxy S22Ultra) or I'm seeing this complaint on multiple reddit and other site threads where the phones are 2023/2022 models are the ones reporting the problems. I upgraded a few months ago to the S22Ultra and that's when the problem really started for me. It didn't happen often when I had my Note 9, though it did still happen, but now it's all the time.
I have to constantly turn on airplane mode then turn off airplane mode in order to get a text message out. (Texts come in ok usually). Phone calls to my phone will usually not ring but go right to VM, and without my phone showing a missed call. I usually cannot call out unless I restart my phone. This is very hard to work with as I work from home and the ATT cell service is not good here so I have to use wifi calling. Does anyone know what the fix for this is? It has been working fine here for 2 1/2 years up until a little over 2 months ago. By the way, my sister and I both have Samsung Galaxy 22 Ultra and our Mom has one of the latest iPhones and we are all experiencing this issue in this same timeline, where we had no issues before.
So, to answer your question, no, I did not call or text your secure line. I am not resetting my phone to factory specs which will be the first thing they tell me to do. This has been going on since I bought the phone in October of last year which was brand new so at factory specs at the time. Since it states right in your documentation that wifi calling doesn't work with your wifi, which is what I have, your router, on a Galaxy, short of changing to a different manufacturer, there's not much I can see that is going to change on my end. This is a problem on your end. I'm not the only person with this problem. Maybe Xfinity needs to do an internet search for the hundreds of pleas for help with this problem that people aren't getting and try to find out why it doesn't work instead of just saying it doesn't. Sorry, but I've just had it at this point.
It was about a year ago when Steve Perry said these words to me towards the end of our conversation for World Cafe. I've thought about the exercise he proposed next many times during the year that followed. So as I say farewell on this, my final day as the host of World Cafe, let's do it together now. It starts, as he told me, with picking a song you love:
"How do you do that? I don't think science really knows how we stream music in our mind. We can stream it over the internet, we can stream it over satellite, but I can sit here and I can hear my favorite Sam Cooke song any time I want to without batteries."
"There's something magical about music and where it lands in us and how it stays in us and we own it somehow. It becomes part of us and I treat that with extreme reverence, I really do. I think it's a magical thing."
There are so many songs that have become part of me over the last three years. I hope that if you've listened to World Cafe, there are songs that have become part of you too, made you feel connected to a musician, connected to us. Songs that have challenged you or changed you, songs that have helped you work up a good sweat or a good cry, songs that have made a long drive feel shorter, or made a bad day feel more bearable.
In this farewell playlist you'll find 100 songs that have challenged or changed me on the Cafe; songs I'll be taking with me as I go. I'll also be taking the powerful feeling of inspiration that comes with bearing witness to an undeniable paradigm shift in music. Voices that have always been ringing but have been historically shut out by a previously presumed "center", are being heard more and more. Thank you to those leading the charge, thank you to those making space. It's entirely overwhelming to imagine the magnitude of what happens when we exchange music; the scope of the web of connectivity that begins when an artist spins an idea into song and leaves every single body it meets vibrating a little differently than before.
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