By david | Posted November 24th, 2009
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.
Tags: cdma, g-block spectrum, pcs, public mobile answers your questions, technology | Posted in People and Places, Support | 6 Comments »
By david | Posted November 18th, 2009
Here’s another great question from a Public Mobile blog reader that we thought we wanted to share with you.
Blade: I hear a lot of talk of “Talk&Text”, that’s all well and good. But what I want to know is what are your plans for DATA? Will you be providing affordable data plans? Will data be included in your standard $40 plan? Rogers/Fido have forced me to go the last 8 months *dies a little inside* without caller display or voice-mail (my friends all hate me now but… its the principle!) so I’m kinda used to it, but I’d like to know if at least voice-mail is included in your $40 plan.
Public Mobile: Hi Blade – Public Mobile will be launching with our $40 unlimited talk and text plan initially. We are building our network to accommodate data transmission so we can expand our offering to consumers in the future. As far as call display and voicemail, we are keeping the full details of our $40 unlimited talk and text plan from being released currently. Stay tuned as we’ll update our website to give full plan details as we get closer to launch.
Tags: 40$ a month, call display, data, public mobile answers your questions, unlimited talk&text, voicemail | Posted in People and Places, Support | 6 Comments »
By david | Posted November 16th, 2009
(French) Public Mobile blog reader Maxo asked us a question about our bandwidth and it’s a good one. We thought we’d share it (and our answer) with you.
Maxo: Hi, I think that what scares people is the new bandwidth you’re using. There is not one other company in America who uses it and that feeds our skepticism. Have you done conclusive testing and are you not worried about facing unexpected surprises when you launch?
Public Mobile: Hi Maxo. Thanks for your questions. The spectrum that Public Mobile purchased is really no different to the rest of the spectrum that was auctioned last year by Industry Canada. In February this year we demonstrated this at a press conference in Toronto where we made a call over our recently purchased spectrum using mobile phone equipment that is commercially available. Similar spectrum is owned by Sprint in the United States.
We have a great network team here at Public Mobile and they’re working hard to ensure that our launch is problem free. Check back in tomorrow to see a video of Brian, our technical lead, and get a tour of one of our antenna sites.
Tags: bandwidth, network, public mobile answers your questions, skepticism answered, spectrum | Posted in Our coverage, People and Places | 8 Comments »
