WIFI Calling?

[Anonymous]

Anyone have any info as to when other devices apart from iPhone 7/7 Plus will be activated for wifi calling? Cheers.

[Anonymous]

it could also be difficult to find out through customer services as they had no idea what wifi and 4g calling was when I called

[MI5]

I've never seen anything other than the 7 or 7+ mentioned..

[evantkh]

@PhoneChanger

What do you mean?

I think the problem is due to the transition from circuit switched network to the IMS one.

[evantkh]

VoLTE and VoWiFi is routed through IMS. VoLTE establishes additional connection to IMS network while VoWiFi establishes a VPN connection to the IMS network but TU Go is an app making calls on open internet.

[PhoneChanger]

@evantkh at the moment O2 have bundled WiFi calling and 4G calling into a single activated service (don't ask me why as I don't know)

However if they allow multiple handsets to suddenly have access to the 4G calling service then more handsets will be using the 4G network for calls than are currently, which could result in coverage / network performance issues so it makes sense for them to protect the network and add handsets in gradually so they can monitor the performance and potential pinch points.

Given that a number of handsets already support native wifi calling I doubt it would still be due to the infrastructure supporting it, especially since how it works on Apple devices is the same on Samsung devices.

[evantkh]

@PhoneChanger

but in this case they can just silently activate VoLTE on some accounts without notice, rather than having it on specific models.

[PhoneChanger]

@evantkh yes, they could... but it is up to O2 how they handle their rollouts, and we, as customers can only guess why they do what they do, there will be logic in there somewhere...

[evantkh]

@PhoneChanger

I had an interesting experience in another country when VoLTE on the device suddenly got available and unable to be turned on, and then I rang the provider and said the account is abnormal and was reset making it work but losing all other configurations, but I found nothing about it on the website.

[Anonymous]

Can I vote for O2 to enable this on the iPhone 6...?

[evantkh]

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@Anonymous wrote:

Can I vote for O2 to enable this on the iPhone 6...?

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@Anonymous

Does Apple push the carrier file to iPhone 6? Anyone can turn on VoLTE on their MyO2 account now.