Public Cellular mountaineering some clients’ costs by $3/mo

Telus is elevating costs for its worth wi-fi model, Public Cellular.

Some Public Cellular clients took to social media after receiving messages from the corporate a few $3/mo value improve. Most individuals hit by the rise look like on $15 and $20 plans, so it seems to be like Public is focusing on clients on a few of its least expensive plans.

In an announcement to MobileSyrup, Telus mentioned:

“We proactively contacted a small variety of Public Cellular clients on choose legacy month-to-month fee plans to tell them that they might see a $3 improve on their subsequent billing cycle, starting October 30. Affected clients can benefit from any of our in-market month-to-month fee plans that finest swimsuit their wants and funds, which incorporates limitless Canada-wide discuss and textual content, and knowledge at 4G and 5G speeds, providing much more worth.”

Whereas Telus mentioned it’s growing prices for choose legacy plans, some on Reddit declare they have been on newer plans. One buyer famous they have been on a $15/500MB plan that got here out in June 2025.

Public’s present plans — which simply went up in value — don’t go beneath $20/mo. The corporate’s $20 plan solely provides discuss and textual content, with clients needing to fork out $25/mo to get 3GB of 4G knowledge.

Sadly, there aren’t a ton of nice sub-$20 choices exterior of Public both. Fortunate Cellular and Chatr Cellular each provide $19/500MB plans, which aren’t superb. As standard, Freedom has the most effective choices with its $129/yr plan, which incorporates 20GB of information and limitless discuss and textual content. That works out to roughly $10.75/mo and 1.6GB of month-to-month knowledge, which is an honest worth total.

In different phrases, in the event you acquired hit with Public’s value hike, you would possibly wish to begin purchasing round for alternate suppliers. You would possibly have the ability to discover a half-decent deal on the market.