Public Mobile confirms $40 talk and text offer; May launch

By Lesley Hunter

TORONTO – Despite being about two months away from launching its network, new wireless entrant Public Mobile opened the doors to 25 stores in Toronto and Montreal Thursday to start pre-selling four handsets and promoting its $40 unlimited talk and text packages.Company CEO Alek Krstajic said that the network will launch by mid-May in Toronto and Montreal, and will double its territory, and quadruple its number of stores, by the end of the year. Public Mobile paid $52.3 million for G-band spectrum spanning the corridor from Windsor to Quebec City, an area that includes nearly 19 million Canadians.The idea to...