WiFi calling

Nickolp1974

Nickolp1974

Nickolp1974

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About to move into new house and will have 900mb fibre, most likely with BT, i was going to get a landline but adds around £20 p/m, with having a good service how does wifi calling work? does it have a number?? to dial from a landline, can you ring mobiles?? not sure on all this regarding phones so any input would be greatly appreciated.
 
Do you need one (a "landline") at all? Why not just use a mobile?
 
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throwaway4372 said:
WiFi calling is a feature of mobiles which allows the mobile to make and receive calls via its WiFi connection, which is good if you have no mobile signal at home. That's nothing to do with paying for a landline tho.

Landlines are obsolete if you have a mobile, which everyone does now. So there's no point paying for it.
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Agree mostly. If you have a mobile with a functional signal almost all the time, you can largely stick with that and work any workarounds needed around the mobile.

However, if planning for an emergency or in need of a connection in more urgent times, then having the ability to call via Landline (VOIP) would be good also. In my case for example, as I will need an emergency line to call for medical emergencies or be called (because we locally have a mobile not spot so the last thing you want is a bad connection during an emergency), we went with a Landline (VOIP) with our ISP (Community Fibre, £10 extra a month) and mobiles are our "in case the Landline is totally out" backup.
 
Meddling-Monk said:
Agree mostly. If you have a mobile with a functional signal almost all the time, you can largely stick with that and work any workarounds needed around the mobile.

However, if planning for an emergency or in need of a connection in more urgent times, then having the ability to call via Landline (VOIP) would be good also. In my case for example, as I will need an emergency line to call for medical emergencies or be called (because we locally have a mobile not spot so the last thing you want is a bad connection during an emergency), we went with a Landline (VOIP) with our ISP (Community Fibre, £10 extra a month) and mobiles are our "in case the Landline is totally out" backup.
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This is precisely what Wi-Fi calling solves, your mobile phone will use your internet to make a call rather than having to rely on the mobile network.
 
throwaway4372 said:
WiFi calling is a feature of mobiles which allows the mobile to make and receive calls via its WiFi connection, which is good if you have no mobile signal at home. That's nothing to do with paying for a landline tho.

Landlines are obsolete if you have a mobile, which everyone does now. So there's no point paying for it.
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yeah weve not had landline for 4 years but again, the parents! they have old mobiles, need to check what they have
 
We use wifi calling, because without we just can't place a reliable phone call.

However, I haven't found it to be bulletproof by any stretch.

Some of the cheaper networks straight up don't support it.

With my old Samsung mobile, it would randomly and silently drop wifi calling capability - causing me to miss critical calls. I ended up switching to a Pixel as a result, and that has been more stable.

My work iPhone is very touch and go. I actually run it aeroplane mode at home because otherwise it would often try to use the rubbish mobile signal in preference to Wifi and then no-one could hear me properly.
 
Jim99 said:
We use wifi calling, because without we just can't place a reliable phone call.

However, I haven't found it to be bulletproof by any stretch.

Some of the cheaper networks straight up don't support it.

With my old Samsung mobile, it would randomly and silently drop wifi calling capability - causing me to miss critical calls. I ended up switching to a Pixel as a result, and that has been more stable.

My work iPhone is very touch and go. I actually run it aeroplane mode at home because otherwise it would often try to use the rubbish mobile signal in preference to Wifi and then no-one could hear me properly.
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Yeah same. I ditched my Samsung mobile as WiFi calling wasn't always on. The phone would switch to what it thought it should use if the phone signal was ok; exactly like you described with your work iPhone. Pixel for example keeps it on always. Same as other phones I've had, like currently my Motorola. :)
 
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