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Londonguy said
Don't know if this is available everywhere in Canada, but in SW Ontario on BYOD I get unlimited calling & texting including voicemail with a monthly 1GB data allowance at 3G speed for $25/month from Lucky Mobile (Bell's discount operation). No contract, so I can walk away whenever I want.

https://www.luckymobile.ca/

They have larger data plans, but IMO their best deal currently is the $25 plan where you get 500MB of data and then get another 500MB if you enroll to "top-up" your account (i.e. if you set up autopay, which I'm going to do anyway). 1GB at 3G speed is more than enough for either one of us. Another option is a 750MB plan that throttles back to 128k once you max out the data allowance but I have no firsthand experience with it.

My wife and I both used to be on Koodo (at twice the cost) and seriously considered moving to Public Mobile, but Lucky has call center reps and I concluded I wasn't tech savvy enough to solve all my own problems if things ever start to act up. Also, local PM users report experiencing a lot of call drop in my area once you get out of the cities. Freedom Mobile has even spottier coverage around here than PM so they're not a viable option either.

I've never been a fan of Bell but IMO this is a great reliable product for the mostly casual user like myself. I personally can't tell that I'm capped at 3G speed, although I'm guessing it's not going to satisfy gamer addicts or sports junkies who like to stream hockey games on their phone.

If anyone likes the look of Lucky and wants to share a referral bonus, send me a PM or just sign up without one  

Hi thanks. Telus says their network is Telus/Bell and has been that way for years. I wonder if Bell says if their network shares Telus towers.

Me too.....Bell.....not for me. I had Bell Express-Vue.....bad customer service. I had a Bell corporate phone through work...was good....but I only dealt with our administrator....and no doubt Bell bent over backwards to keep that national contract. Then I had Bell mobility through Costco......bad customer service....I had a transferable plan that took 3 months of dealing with stupidity. Never again.

Yes I have read about PM dropped calls. Do it yourselfers, that should have stayed with post paid, with not enough common sense to trouble shoot or review the issues? Sim issues.....self caused. iPhone 7.......not the best iPhone ever as the mic cuts out and could appear as a dropped call and they asked the person to try another phone to confirm a network or phone issue......and lastly PM admitted they had dropped calls with the $15 that I would subscribe to....it was fixed and you can see commitment in their responses.

I do know when Telus has internet issues they can control where/how it is used....ie. cut back on the TV or cutback on the internet. So no doubt I guess they could control who has best mobile service, post paid, prepaid, Koodo, PM. And perhaps could give full coverage access or Telus or Bell tower access only. What a pun eh....Bell Tower.
I would hope they treat level of mobile service equally as if not that would have repercussions with CTRC and customers. PM and Lucky is the forced CTRC solution for lower cost service.....but Telus and Bell have neglected to advise us.

I looked at Lucky and their flexibility is much better than PM. But that is a preference by individual and what their base features are. I really like the PM add ons that roll over. Very similar to the old old version of Telus Prepaid where you paid $10 a month and what you did not use rolled over.....I had a $400 balance.

I would like most options for 2 accounts for under $300 a year.

And since PM has unlimited inbound calls I can direct all of our VOIP house phone calls to our PM numbers. There is a little extra cost to transfer VOIP calls to PM, but would only come into play if both wife and are were not home and if we answered the call. And if an outage can use our home phone on an app on our iPhones over wifi. And yes no PM service and no wifi am hooped.

If I had a child away at university a very cheap way to communicate is to give them a PM phone with unlimited inbound calls. Ie. you are in Vancouver and child in Toronto.....give child a PM phone with a Vancouver number.

Just an update.

I kept my Telus prepaid account open. A couple of months ago I took a Public Mobile Account and picked my preferred last 4 digits for the number.
I have now ported my Telus number over which forced the Telus account to close (I hope).

I now have the $15 plan which includes all incoming calls, all texts including pictures and international, 100 Canada wide out bound minutes, 10 voicemail, and a whopping 250mb of data.
Since the Canada Add-Ons carry over month to month I bought
2 x 500 Canada wide outbound minutes
1 x 400 international minutes (there is no point to buy the 200 Canada USA long distance minutes)
The Canadian Add-Ons cost me $25 but should last for a long time.
If I travel to USA I will by a USA Add-On that does NOT carry over.
I have auto-pay and 3 referrals so my monthly bill is now $15-$5=$10.

I have done same for wife but her bill is $13.

So after that, since PM has unlimited inbound calls I updated our land line (VoIP.ms) to forward calls to both our mobile phones. All 3 ring.....one is answered and other 2 stop ringing. I had a problem with loop back when calling land line from mobile phone. But the wonderful folks at VoIP.ms gave me one setting to do...and it all works great!!