Canadian carrier referral programs

Name: Canadian carrier referral programs
Creator: MobileReferrals.ca
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

8 Canadian mobile carriers' refer-a-friend programmes, each read from the carrier's own website and published with the date it was checked.

8 carriers · 4 live · 4 discontinued · checked 2026-10-21 · CC BY 4.0

Why this exists

Referral-code aggregators routinely publish programmes that no longer exist. At the time of writing, several still advertise Virgin Plus and Fido referral offers — both ended in 2024–2025. Nobody maintained a dated, sourced record, so this is one.

The finding worth noting is that half of these programmes have ended. Bell closed both of its flanker programmes on the same day, and its own Bell-brand programme ended that day too. Rogers closed both of its own, earlier and separately. Of the carriers in this dataset, every surviving programme belongs to TELUS or Quebecor.

The dataset does not cover every carrier. TELUS's own programme (a $50 bill credit for each side) and Eastlink's (a $50 credit for the referrer) are also live, checked on their own pages on 2026-10-21, and are not in it yet.

The data

Carrier	Status	New customer	Referrer	Source
Fizz Quebecor	live	$25 in every province fizz.ca says $25 on its programme page and its site-wide menu in all five regions, and a real Ontario checkout applied $25 on 2026-10-21. The plan-page referral FAQ in Ontario, Alberta, B.C. and Manitoba still advertises $40 (Quebec plan pages carry no referral FAQ); an Ontario cart applied $40 on 2026-07-16, but the October checkout did not. Re-verified 2026-10-21 in a real browser across 20 region-and-language checkpoints, region forced by cookie. re-checked 2026-10-21	$25 on the programme page and site menu; $40 on the plan-page FAQ outside Quebec Fizz's pages conflict on this side: the programme page says "you’ll each get a $25 referral bonus" and the site-wide menu "$25 for you, $25 for them" in every region, while the plan-page FAQ for Alberta, Ontario, BC and Manitoba says "you both receive a $40 referral bonus". In July 2026 that FAQ gave no amount for the referrer.	source
Koodo TELUS	live	$25 postpaid, paid as $5/month × 5 months. Prepaid: $5 on activation, then $5 per additional month the friend stays, up to 5 months	The same as the new customer, in both programs	source
Public Mobile TELUS	live	$10 one-time bill credit	1 Public Point per 30 days that each referred line stays subscribed Public Mobile's help pages value a point at $1 ("Redeem points at a value of 1 point for $1"), and its rewards terms add that points "have no cash value, and may not be redeemed for cash".	source
Freedom Mobile Quebecor	live	$25 one-time service credit	$25 one-time service credit per successful referral	source
chatr Rogers	ended 31 May 2023	—	—	source
Fido Rogers	ended 2 July 2024	—	—	source
Lucky Mobile Bell	ended 9 June 2025	—	—	source
Virgin Plus Bell	ended 9 June 2025	—	—	source

Method

Amounts are read from the carrier's own website or support documentation. Never from a coupon site or a referral aggregator.
Every record carries the source URL it was read from.
Where a carrier's own pages contradict each other, that is recorded rather than resolved, unless a real checkout settles it. Fizz is the live example: its programme page says $25 in every region while its plan pages advertise $40 outside Quebec, for both sides. An Ontario checkout applied $25 on 2026-10-21, so the new-member figure is $25 and the $40 is kept in the note; the referrer figure, which no checkout shows, still records both.
Anything that could not be confirmed is left blank. A blank cell is publishable; a plausible guess is not.

Figures are re-checked in a real browser rather than by fetching raw HTML, because several carriers ship every regional variant of a page and delete the non-matching ones in the browser — a check that reads the raw markup reports amounts no visitor can see.

Known limits

Amounts change without notice. Check the carrier's own page before acting.
Public Mobile's referrer reward is 1 Public Point per 30 days. Its help pages now value a point at $1 (“Redeem points at a value of 1 point for $1”), and its rewards terms add that points “have no cash value”.
Freedom Mobile has no code to type. The referrer gets a unique referral link, the friend must claim the offer through it before activating, and the terms permit referring only “individuals with whom you have a personal relationship”.

Changes

2026-10-21 (checkout) — Fizz's new-member figure is now $25 in every province: a real Ontario checkout applied $25, matching the programme page and the site menu. The plan-page FAQ's $40 outside Quebec, which a July 2026 cart applied, is kept in the note. The referrer figure still records both amounts.
2026-10-21 — All eight carriers re-checked. Fizz's plan-page FAQ now promises the referrer $40 outside Quebec as well (its programme page still says $25); Public Mobile now publishes a point's value ($1); Freedom gives the referrer a link rather than an invite to a named person. Corrected: “every major carrier” (TELUS and Eastlink run live programmes not yet in the dataset), “every surviving programme belongs to TELUS or Quebecor” (true only of the carriers listed here), and the claim that Public Mobile publishes no point value.
2026-09-08 — Fizz re-verified across 20 region-and-language checkpoints.
2026-09-01 — First published.

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