No option to turn on cellular calls

I have upgraded to Yosemite and have iOS 8 on my iPhone 5S.
The option for iPhone cellular calls has been turn on my iPhone, but when i go to FaceTime > Preferences there is no option to turn on cellular calls like man of the instructions guide state.
Is there something that i need to do to have this option appear on my FaceTime?

I have experienced issues relating to the continuity feature that allows one to make cellular calls from an iPad or Macbook. Basically I was no longer able to make/receive iPhone calls from my iPad or Macbook. There is usually an option in settings/facetime on my iPhone 6 running iOS8.2 for iPhone cellular calls. This needs to be switched on. There is usually also an option on my late 2013 high spec Macbook running Yosemite (in FaceTime preferences) for the same thing - this also needs to be switched on. These iPhone cellular options totally disappeared from the menu systems when I was playing around with 2 step verification and signing in and out of FaceTime etc. My devices were definitely on the same wifi network. I phoned Applecare who suggested a couple of options though were unable to resolve the problem, they suggested it was a Carrier issue which it certainly was not. Applecare made an appointment for me at my local Apple Store. Basically the cellular options re-appeared on my Mac and iPad after switching off 2 step authentication, logging out of Facetime, iMessages and iCloud on ALL devices and logging back into all using my basic apple ID. I have no idea whether all of that was necessary, but it worked. I am now in the process of returning to 2 step verification. Hopefully it will continue to work....
I can now make/receive cellular calls from my Macbook and iPad.
I also learnt that the iPhone and Macbook are not designed to link to each other via Bluetooth. I had thought there may have been some hardware issue when mine would not connect - apparently not.

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