We received an interesting inquiry and we thought we’d share it with you.

Canadian_Kool:  I realize that you have a difficult band of spectrum, but I heard that you were able to use a commercially available CDMA phone on your network.  In that case, I would strongly recommend that you allow people to purchase old CDMA phones and load your PRL file onto it and bring their own phones to Public.   Is this even technically possible?

Public Mobile:  Thanks for your question.  The phone we used to make our first phone call on our G Block spectrum was a commercially available phone that had been tuned to support our G Block spectrum. Since then we’ve been talking with a variety of phone manufacturers who will provide us with  a selection of phones for launch. Our phones will also  be capable of  supporting commercially available PCS (Personal Communications Service) blocks of spectrum, so if you ever needed to make a 911 call outside the Public Mobile network footprint, the phone would still place the call.
No, unfortunately you will not be able to use an old CDMA phones on the Public Mobile network.