Wifi calling still routes the call through your carrier.
Or do you mean using voip services that operate independently of a carrier? The problem with those is that many services block voip numbers due to the rampant abuse by bots and scammers. As an example, I would not be able to sign up for my medical portal or any of my billing sevices as well as others(I tried to register with a voip number to protect the cell number I’ve used for decades).
Support for a device on each cellular provider isn’t automatic. There is are certification and approval steps that cost them money upfront.
Charging fees is unlikely to recuperate their network engineer costs so from a consumer perspective it’ll look like blocking but that’s not the reality. It’s that the device wouldn’t be in their supported device list.
Anyone want to bet Cellular Providers will start blocking or tack on additional network fees for non-Apple/Google phones?
I have been thinking the same. There’s no way govts will go so far as to try to threaten individual websites for allowing visitors using VPNs but leave the carrier as a loophole to this effort.
I expect at some point to have to stop using a carrier because of this.
Fine. Wifi calling is good enough for me. VoIP never went away
Wifi calling still routes the call through your carrier.
Or do you mean using voip services that operate independently of a carrier? The problem with those is that many services block voip numbers due to the rampant abuse by bots and scammers. As an example, I would not be able to sign up for my medical portal or any of my billing sevices as well as others(I tried to register with a voip number to protect the cell number I’ve used for decades).
The patter. WiFi calling is just more commonly understood so I said that.
Support for a device on each cellular provider isn’t automatic. There is are certification and approval steps that cost them money upfront.
Charging fees is unlikely to recuperate their network engineer costs so from a consumer perspective it’ll look like blocking but that’s not the reality. It’s that the device wouldn’t be in their supported device list.
Yeah. They don’t need to block them, they just won’t work, and they won’t support them.
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