Archive for July, 2010
By david | Posted July 30th, 2010
In Toronto this past week, the Lawrence Avenue and Keele Street site was completed. Over the next coming weeks, we have sites at Finch Avenue and Dufferin Street which will help with coverage at the north end of Downsview Park and Rogers Road and Dufferin Avenue which will improve coverage for the residential area surrounding that intersection.
As for Montreal, here are the areas that we’ve added network equipment in the last week to improve reception:
- Saint-Henri: St-Jacques St. and Highway 15 – site will provide coverage up to Highway 15 south all the way to the intersection of Highway 20/720 in the east
- West of Saint-Pierre City: Boyer Ave. and Des Erables St.
- North of Hampstead: MacDonald Ave. and Plamondon Ave.
- Town of Mount Royal: Henley Ave. & Dovon Ave. and Graham Blvd.
- East of Longue-Pointe: La Fontaine St. and Emile-Legrand Ave.
- East of Pointe-aux-Trembles: Prince-Albert St. and 16th Avenue
- Southeast of Vertu: Lebeau Blvd.
- Montreal-East: Gouin Blvd. East, between Paul Dufault Ave. and Alexis Carrel Ave.
- South of Tetreaultville: De Bruxelles St. and La Fontaine St.
Next week, our work will focus on the areas of northern Boulevard Newman in LaSalle, NDG, and Montreal-West into St-Pierre City.
Tags: montreal, network, reception, toronto | Posted in Our coverage | 10 Comments »
By david | Posted July 29th, 2010
Thanks for your suggestions of all the countries you’d like to see included in our overseas long distance feature. There were many, many different countries requested (with some of the more popular requests being Haiti and Pakistan). While we are always working to add new countries, we do look at what we are charged to connect these calls, and how we can offer unlimited service for our customers. In some cases it currently just isn’t possible.
We have been able to include 190 countries in our unlimited international text feature, which is included in our $40 talk and text plan.
We’ll continue to work on ways we can add these countries to our overseas calling feature, but in the near future we don’t see a large decline in the costs for calling these countries, so any changes won’t be immediate.
We hope you understand. Thanks again for all your comments and suggestions, we really appreciate them.
Tags: country suggestions, international feature, overseas long distance, public mobile | Posted in Our coverage | 22 Comments »
By david | Posted July 23rd, 2010
For Toronto, the work progressed and continues on the sites along the Gardiner Expressway and at the Lawrence Ave W. and Keele Ave site. These sites should improve the in-building coverage for the residential areas surrounding these sites. These sites should be completed by August 2nd.
As for Montreal, the following areas have had work done, and should see improved coverage:
- Lachine: Sherbrooke St.
- Ahunstic: intersection of Charles de la Tour St. and Antonio Barbeau St.
- Montreal-North: intersection of D’Amiens St. and Pigeon St.
- Plateau Mount Royal: near St-Denis, Rachel St., Papineau Av., St-Joseph Blvd., Saint-Laurent Blvd.
- East Downtown: McGill University, near Park Av., Saint-Laurent Blvd., St-Denis St., Rene-Levesque Blvd. West, Sherbrooke Street West
- Town of Mount Royal: Dunkirk Rd. and the intersection of Rockland Rd. and Graham Blvd.
- Mercier-Hochelaga-Maisonneuve: Hochelaga St.
- Tétreaultville; the intersection of Pierre-de-Coubertin Av. and French St.
- Anjou & Riviere-des-Prairies: Highway 40, from the Ray Lawson Blvd. (Anjou) to Saint-Jean Baptiste Blvd. And the refineries areas.
- Saint-Laurent: intersection of Grenet St. and Rochon St.
Next week’s improvements will be fewer as the construction stoppage begins to affect what is possible. Currently we are planning on adding a site at St-Jacques St. and Hwy 15, which should improve the coverage from Hwy 15 to Hwy 20/720 in the East.
If you have any questions or comments, please let us know. We forward them on to the teams here at Public Mobile as they help us improve service and be responsive to you.
Posted in Our coverage | 14 Comments »
By david | Posted July 23rd, 2010
We’re proud to announce that we will be attending the 24th edition of Festival Nuits d’Afrique. The Festival is a leading event in Montreal and was the 2005 and 2007 winner of Montreal’s Excellence in Tourism Awards at the Gala des Grands Prix du Tourisme Quebecois.
Hosting some 80,000 visitors, the Village des Nuits d’Afrique at Place Émilie-Gamelin will have more than 400 artists play 53 concerts in 5 different concert halls. You’ll also be able to find our team there, and they’ll be able to answer any questions you have about Public Mobile. Here’s hoping you come see us at the Festival Nuits d’Afrique 2010!
The Festival will run from July 13-25. More details about the program and artists here at http://www.festivalnuitsdafrique.com/en.
Tags: concerts, events, montreal, nuit d'afrique, public mobile, publicmobile | Posted in People and Places | Write a comment »
By david | Posted July 22nd, 2010
Check out the latest Public Mobile TV ad that aired during the World Cup featuring Walter.
Tags: $24, ad, public mobile, publicity, publicmobile, unlimited, walter | Posted in In the news, People and Places | Write a comment »
By david | Posted July 16th, 2010
In Toronto, the network construction team has also been working hard to enhance our coverage. Here’s what they’ve been able to accomplish in the last week:
- Bloor St E and Parliament – coverage in the St. Jamestown area, improving coverage around the intersection of Bloor Street and Parliament and the southern sections of Rosedale
- Sheppard Ave East and Kennedy Rd – the Agincourt section of Toronto, and east of Highway 404 and North of Highway 401
- Queen St and University Ave – In building coverage in downtown Toronto, and enhance the coverage at the University/Wellington intersection
The next areas we’ll be working on include the following:
- Yonge Street and Gardiner Expressway – along the Gardiner Expressway, and in-building coverage in the commercial buildings that line Queens Quay and Yonge Street.
- Lawrence Avenue and Keele Street –Weston area, and along Keele Street
We’ll provide another update next Friday for both Montreal and Toronto. If you have any questions or comments, please let us know.
Tags: network, toronto | Posted in Our coverage | 3 Comments »
By david | Posted July 16th, 2010
The network team is continuing to work hard to improve coverage. Here are the areas with enhanced coverage this week:
- Ahunstic-Cartierville: the intersection of Highway 40 and Highway 15, the crossing of O’Brien Blvd. and Salaberry St., as well as on Louisbourg St.
- Pointe-aux-Trembles: West of 2nd Avenue.
- Montreal-North: Fleury St. East as well as the intersection of Saint-Michel Blvd. and Henri-Bourassa Blvd. East.
- Côte-des-Neiges: Victoria Avenue on the west side, up to Côte-des-Neige on the east side, up to The Boulevard on the south and up to Côte-Ste-Catherine Rd. on the north side.
Our next update should include these sites:
- Plateau Mont-Royal: Parc La Fontaine Avenue, Rachel St., St-Denis St., Papineau Avenue, St-Joseph Blvd. and Saint-Laurent Blvd.
- East Downtown: the intersection of Sherbrooke and Saint-Urbain, McGill University, Park Avenue, Saint-Laurent Blvd., Saint-Denis, René-Lévesque Blvd. West and Sherbrooke St. West.
- Anjou & Rivière-des-Prairies: the crossing of Henri-Bourassa Blvd. and Rodolphe-Forget Blvd. as well as from the Ray Lawson Blvd. (Anjou) to Saint-Jean Baptiste Blvd. And the refineries areas.
One further update that will affect the next two weeks is the province-wide construction stoppage. This will affect our network construction through to August 2nd when the construction stoppage is lifted.
Thanks again for your comments – we read them all and provide feedback to the team here at Public Mobile.
Tags: Ahunstic-Cartierville, Anjou, Côte-des-Neiges, Downtown, montreal, Montreal-North, network, Plateau Mont-Royal, Pointe-aux-Trembles, Rivière-des-Prairies | Posted in Our coverage | 6 Comments »
By david | Posted July 15th, 2010
Beginning today, talking and texting to countries outside of North America just got easier.
For just $15 per month you can add the unlimited overseas long distance feature to your existing $40 plan allowing you to dial 45 countries and have unlimited talk with your family and friends.
We’ve seen the blog comments asking us to add countries such as Haiti, Jamaica, Lebanon, Pakistan, Philippines, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Guyana, Trinidad, Algeria St. Vincent, Iraq, Bahamas, Morocco and more. We are working hard and doing our best to add more countries; we most recently added Guadeloupe to the list, as well as adding mobile phones in Puerto Rico, the US Virgin Islands and Guam. As much as we’d always like to be adding countries to the overseas long distance plan, sometimes conditions beyond our control necessitate removing a country. We’re sorry to let you know this past week we had to remove Jordan from the plan due to a Jordanian government tax that was implemented that affected the connection charges. We will continue to update you as we add new countries.
In addition to launching overseas long distance, we’re also adding international text to the $40 plan tomorrow which will allow you to send texts to 190 countries around the world. For all those asking us to add additional countries to the overseas long distance feature, take a look at the list of countries we provide international texting to. Many of the countries you’ve asked for are now included, so you’ll be able to text friends and family around the world as part of our unlimited talk and text plan.
To view the complete list of available countries and check the availability of the number you want to call, click here
Tags: 45 countries, International Texting, public mobile, Unlimited overseas long distance | Posted in Plans and Features | 18 Comments »
By david | Posted July 13th, 2010
A question came in over the weekend pointing out that we hadn’t updated everyone on the Toronto network. While we’ve been working hard improving the Montreal coverage and letting everyone know what we’ve been doing, the network build in Toronto has continued as well. Since the end of June we’ve added the following sites that improve coverage at the following locations:
- Bloor Street and Bathurst Street
- Lakeshore Boulevard and Spadina Ave.
- Don Mills Road and Lawrence Avenue East
- Victoria Park and Sheppard Avenue East
- Bloor Street East and Parliament Avenue
- Highway 401 and Meadowvale Avenue
We’re continuing to build and expand the network as fast as we can, and appreciate your patience and feedback as we do so.
We’ll have an update for both Montreal and Toronto on Friday, letting you know what’s been happening in the past week.
Tags: Network Update, toronto | Posted in Our coverage | 4 Comments »
By david | Posted July 9th, 2010
Have you spotted the guys from www.freestylesoccer.ca at our Montreal locations yet? Carlos and Houcine have been doing a tour of various locations in Montreal for the past week showing off their amazing soccer acrobatics and tricks with a ball. Each trick is an amazing combination of creativity, imagination and ball control. They will be at the Boulevard Shopping Centre in Montreal this Saturday, July 10th – see details below.
On Saturday, we will also be giving a free ZTE C78 phone to everyone who buys any regularly priced Public Mobile phone. Bring a friend or family member to one of our stores and sign up to one of our unlimited plans, and you’ll both have unlimited time to talk about the big game on Sunday!
The Boulevard Shopping Centre is located at the corner of Pie IX Boulevard and Jean-Talon Boulevard East. They will be there from 9am-4pm.
Tags: free, freestyle, montreal, soccer, unlimited, ZTE C78 | Posted in People and Places | 5 Comments »
By david | Posted July 9th, 2010
Once again, thanks for your comments regarding areas that need improved coverage. In addition to adjusting existing sites based on your feedback, we also added new sites this week, which improved the coverage in the following areas:
- Saint-Laurent (Côte-Vertu Blvd & Cavendish Blvd)
- Ahunstic (Emile-Journault Ave and Papineau)
- Anjou (Les Galeries Anjou Blvd and Beaubien St East)
- Rivière-des-Prairies (Perras Blvd and Armand Bombardier Blvd)
- Lachine (south of Hwy 20, near 46th Ave)
- LaSalle (south of Parc Angrignon)
We also have sites scheduled to go up next week that will improve coverage in the following area:
- Côte-des-Neiges and Queen-Mary
We’re going to work to provide updates on Friday of every week in future weeks. We receive a report from the Network team late on Thursdays and this will allow us to keep you informed as to what we’ve accomplished during the week.
Please keep sending us your comments, and we’ll keep working to improve.
Thanks again for your patience.
Tags: Ahunstic, Anjou, Côte-des-Neiges, montreal, network, Queen Mary, Rivière-des-Prairies, Saint-Laurent | Posted in Our coverage | 21 Comments »
By david | Posted July 5th, 2010
Thameen (left) and Alex (right) help introduce customers to unlimited cell phone service in Toronto
We stopped by the Wellesley Street store the other day and spent some time with two of the guys that work there – Alex and Thameen. They are excited to be working for Public Mobile and the opportunities it presents being a new company starting out. Both are currently students studying here in Toronto – Alex studying International Business, and Thameen studying Electrical Engineering.
Thanks for all your efforts guys.
Tags: Alex, public mobile, Store, Thameen, Wellesley East | Posted in People and Places | 9 Comments »
By david | Posted July 1st, 2010
Thanks again for your comments regarding areas that need improved coverage – our network team is working hard and they have adjusted sites based on your feedback. As well, the network team is continually review the network performance. We will update you when we have confirmation of these adjustments.
There are new sites going live in the next week, which will improve coverage in the following areas:
- Côte-Vertu
- Ahunstic
- Rivière-des-Prairies
Additionally, we are extending the remorse return period until July 13th for those customers that activated their phone prior to July 6th. This means that if you are unhappy with our service, you can return the phone with the original invoice and packaging and we’ll provide you with a full refund.
We are aware that some customers haven’t had ideal experience to date, and we apologize for that and thank you for your patience.
Tags: Ahunstic, Côte-Vertu, montreal, network, Rivière-des-Prairies | Posted in Our coverage | 20 Comments »
By david | Posted July 1st, 2010
Join us to celebrate the biggest day for soccer fans worldwide. For one day only, July 10th, Public Mobile will give a free ZTE C78 phone to everyone who buys any regularly priced Public Mobile phone. Sign both up for one of our unlimited plans, and you’ll have unlimited talk in time for the finals. Now you have another reason to celebrate, so call all your friends and tell them about it!
To see which store is nearest to you, visit our store locator.
Tags: C78, cheer, soccer, ZTE | Posted in Promotions | 16 Comments »
