Unlimited overseas long distance and international texting has arrived

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

18 Comments

  1. Solmaz says:

    Hey awesome, could you add Iran to your list for long distance call/text.

    Thanks,
    Solmaz

  2. George says:

    Add Syria to the list please

  3. naveed says:

    Will you ever add Pakistan to the list?

  4. man says:

    I hope that the network update is still coming tomorrow on the blog, as promised. Great addition to Public Mobile network, hope Public gets better and better, sick of Rogers, Telus and Bell!

  5. Alok says:

    Hi,
    I hope you will introduce some good mobile phones. This is the only reason stopping me to go public mobile. I wanna see nice range of mobiles to choose from…
    Cheers

  6. man says:

    Yes, please add more mobile phones!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Your phones are not good at all, like they are garbage, especially the Kyocera which is 180$. I’ve had to exchange it 7 times.

  7. Tom says:

    Please include Vietnam in the International Long Distance… Thanks

  8. murad says:

    guys guys man please n again include tanzania in ur list bcs i keeo monitoring the site as i read the july update said as ur working on it..hoping with good news anyday

  9. bassam says:

    hii have$40 plan i cant ressive txt from lebanon is that only me or all have same i can only send i call the morthan 100 times but no fix

  10. msi says:

    45 countries is a big deal congrats!
    Looking forward for Saudi Arabia and Eritrea to be added to the list soon, hopefully.

  11. Bhavik says:

    Hello,
    Thanks for this great option at cheap prize. Is it possible to get the history of the international calls that I have made from my cell. I need it for immigration purpose ?

    Thanks
    Bhavik

  12. Yugal says:

    Hey,

    Im really glad to hear that we finally have a service we can rely on. I would like to definitely encourage you to please add tanzania to the list as soon as you are able to.. it will be such a lifesaver for us, and i know im not the only one here.. but keep up the good work !

  13. 2cents says:

    More awesomeness!

  14. sadik says:

    hey public..hope u guys are working hard in finding an answer about adding tazania in the unlimited overseas..it will be amonth till now i havent heard anything plz keep me update on this so i can stop my fido working thanks

  15. Shafaat says:

    Hi, will I ever see any unlimited long distance plan for Bangladesh? Me & my friends are looking for such a package for months.

  16. Public Mobile says:

    Hi Shafaat – We’d really like to include Bangladesh in our unlimited overseas long distance plan, but the connection charges between Canada and Bangladesh are just too high for it to fit in an unlimited $15 plan. We do monitor the connection charges throughout the world in case they change and we are able to add more countries to the unlimited overseas long distance plan.

  17. S.R. says:

    What’s the domain/gateway to send texts/e-mail to a Public Mobile phone? 1234567890@publicmobile.ca?

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