Subj : rogers/telus cutting
To   : Rob Mccart
From : August Abolins
Date : Thu Aug 07 2025 21:20:00

Hello Rob!

** On Thursday 07.08.25 - 07:47, Rob Mccart wrote to JAY HARRIS:

 RM> Texting through Lucky is Global which the 'full' Bell services don't
 RM> offer (Lucky is a Bell company for prepaid users).

I recently needed to test an international text to an  
australian visitor at my shop.  It took a few retries wrt to  
the proper numbering scheme (like dropping the 0 in the area  
code!)  ..but Lucky eventually delivered it!  The delay was  
several minutes for our messages to exchange.


 RM> If I use up all the data, it doesn't stop, it just slows
 RM> down. They then offer to sell you more data at that point
 RM> but if you don't need the speed you can just use it at the
 RM> slower rate which allows for eMail and very low end
 RM> Surfing, but it is free and unlimited at that point.

That's the "unlimited" part of Luckymobile that I like too.   
Even when throttled, it's still good enough to check email or  
poll for echomail.


 JH>> My only real "snag" with Public Mobile is when I got a new debit
 >> card in the mail with an updated expiry date.  I forgot to put
 >> the new details in Public Mobile

 RM> Yes, I've done similar things. I get bonus data, pretty
 RM> much doubling it, because I've been with Lucky for so long
 RM> and am set to auomatically pay every month, but I've run
 RM> into credit card issues when getting a new card, although
 RM> possibly that has changed to automatically update that now
 RM> for regular repeating payments. It's a long time since I
 RM> had to change that.. But every few years I change my plan
 RM> at Lucky and it appears I will lose all my long time user
 RM> bonuses, but usually that gets sorted out by the next
 RM> month.

I've got quite good bonus data by now with Lucky too. They have  
a bonus for 6mos, and another for 12mos,  plus I get the basic  
auto-topup bonus and yet another "auto top-up bonus - 512MB  
when registered".

The only thing that bugs me is that with the $29 plan, I now  
have a surplus of $1 accumulating each month with my minimum  
$30 auto-topup!  I'm now up to $16 of a "balance". The only way  
I can force Lucky to use the balance is if I turn off auto-top  
for a month.





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