Three new smartphones to launch with WiFi Calling

We’re delighted to announce that we’ll be the first network to launch built-in Wifi calling in the UK when the Samsung Galaxy S6, the S6 Edge and the Lumia 640 become available on EE.

If you actually read what I've just wrote, you'll see you've just said exactly what I've just wrote.
I wrote:
"Orange built a Signal Boost app into compatible Orange branded handsets(excluding BlackBerry phones). You would need to open the app to manually enable or disable Signal Boost, you would then be able to use your phone as normal. You would also need to enable or disable WiFi separately from the Signal Boost app."
You've also stated yourself(which I've already said) "it was preinstalled on the phone and only available on branded handsets that had the feature in the firmware. So it was an app like had previously stated. Nothing was said about it being an app available to everyone, all the OP said was Orange had this service already working and Brendonx stated Orange had a app; which you've acknowledged was built into Orange branded firmware.
Here's a picture of the app you claim Orange didn't use installed on a compatible Orange branded handset.
Like I've already explained UMA and WiFi calling are exactly the same thing but branded two different names.
"Generic Access Network or GAN is a telecommunication system that extends mobile voice, data and multimedia (IMS/SIP) applications over IP networks. Unlicensed Mobile Access or UMA, is the commercial name used by mobile carriers for external IP access into their core networks. More recently, the system has been called Wi-Fi Calling by a number of handset manufacturers, including Apple and Samsung, a move that is being mirrored by carriers like T-Mobile US."

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HT5176 How can I make a call from my new iPad(3rd generation) with wifi+4G

How can we make a call from iPad 3rd generation with wifi+4G?

You cant "Call" anyone. Its not a phone. You can facetime other IOS users. Setup facetime with your apple id in ipad settings/facetime. You can also download apps like skype in the app store.

Cisco with WIFI calling

Hi,
I have read about wifi calling and that it is deployed in US by T-Mobile. And Cisco helped in this through Cisco wireless technology that guarantee QOS
Only I need to know what role Cisco do in this ? and if Cisco is main and a must in this solution. or only Cisco provide wireless access points and mobile operators can deploy the solution without Cisco
I need to know why Cisco should be preferred in this solution ?
Thanks

Hi,
The link is
http://blogs.cisco.com/wireless/cisco-and-t-mobile-team-to-deliver-a-wi-fi-calling-solution-with-an-enterprise-class-voice-ready-wireless-lan
The article was from 2010
I think T-Mobile provide this solution from about 4-years
So If I find a good role for Cisco in this solution. I could introduce it to our mobile operators here in my country. But from what I read, I think Cisco could only share in the part of wireless APs and the operator can use his own hotspots
Thanks

Why didn't apple make iphone with wifi calling?

It is beyond me that Blackberry and the Android phones have wifi calling and the new iphone 5 does not. Why? That should be standard in all phones.

Just left a message there. Thanks. I live and travel and work in poor coverage areas and have a mifi to cover me doing charge sales. Sad that Apple won't let me talk in these areas too.

Will 521 work on ATT with wifi calling?

I currently have the 520 using Consumer Cellular which limits voice minutes. It appears to me that a key difference between the 520 (ATT) and 521 (T-Mobile) is that the 521 has wifi calling. So my question is: Is there a way to use a 521's wifi calling on a non T-Mobile provider?
Thank you,
Pete
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the 520 has:
WCDMA network: 850 MHz, 900 MHz, 1900 MHz, 2100 MHz.
.WCDMA max data speed DL: HSDPA - 21.1 Mbps .
.WCDMA max data speed UL: HSUPA - 5.76 Mbps .
.GSM network: 850 MHz, 900 MHz, 1800 MHz, 1900 MHz.
.GSM max data speed DL: EGPRS 236.8 kbps .
.GSM max data speed UL: EGPRS 236.8 kbps .
the 521 has:
WCDMA network: 850 MHz, 1900 MHz, 1700 - 2100 MHz.
.WCDMA max data speed DL: HSDPA - 21.1 Mbps .
.WCDMA max data speed UL: HSUPA - 5.76 Mbps .
.GSM network: 850 MHz, 900 MHz, 1800 MHz, 1900 MHz.
.GSM max data speed DL: EGPRS 236.8 kbps .
.GSM max data speed UL: EGPRS 236.8 kbps .
in order for you to be able to use it on the ATT network, you would have to unlock the device.
that could cost you almost as much as the device is, unless you can get the unlock from Tmobile.
then, while the device will get general 2/2.5G service for phone and text, your data, being that it is missing the 1900mhz, will not get sufficient data.
the real difference between them is the wifi calling and the 1700/1900, which is what really separates the two device and why they are made specifically for each carrier.
being the cost of the devices, I would just buy another one for the ATT. wifi calling is not going to work anyhow, as that is a tmobile product that connects to your account on wifi, which att doesn't have.

New iOS 5 messing with WIFI

It seems that when my iPad or iPhone are charging they somehow are sucking up the WIFI signal. Only after I unplug them will the WIFI go back to normal speed. Forgive me if this is not in the right place as I'm not use to posting on the forums.

iOS 5 should have compatibility with docking stations... you may try doing a restore, or, as a last resort getting a replacement.

I received a New Ipad Mini 32gb with WIFI Only as a gift, Is it possible to exchange it for one with 3G and WiFi

Any Help would be greatly appreciated.

There is the no questioned ask 14/15 day return policy with apple stores. Ask the person who gifted it to you.
Other than that there is MiFi.
I recently signed up for FreedomPop.com. http://www.freedompop.com
FreedomPop provides 500meg of free 4g cellular data per month! You do need to buy their wireless device at $39. There are ways of getting bonus megs. One gig of addition data costs $10 per month. I used about 15megs per hour of lite internet surfing.
When signing up, you need to be careful with your selections. On some screens, the free option is a small link below the large button. FreedomPop employs a Pavlovian Dog < Operant conditioning > thing of getting you used to clicking on the large button then they change the large button to a paid add-on.
Once you setup your account, you need to go to your account options screen to turn off automatic paid data download once you exceed your quota.
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Why doesn't the Verizon Version of the HTC ONE (M9) have Wifi Calling?

I have been with sprint for 11 years and recently upgraded my HTC One (M7) to the HTC One (M9). went to jamaica and was able to keep in touch with everyone free of charge with wifi calling. Once i returned i decided to leave sprint and come to Verizon. I realized today they dont have wifi calling on this phone. Why is that. isn't it CDMA like sprint

They're planning on releasing it in mid-2015:
Verizon Wireless (NYSE: VZ) plans to introduce Wi-Fi calling in the middle of next year but does not see an urgent need for it, according to Verizon Communications CFO Fran Shammo.
Speaking at the Bank of America Merrill Lynch Media, Communications and Entertainment Conference, Shammo noted that Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) new iPhone 6 and 6 Plus support Wi-Fi calling. He said Verizon needs to do "some technological work in our network to make it available," and it should come around the middle of next year.
However, he said Wi-Fi calling was "never a top priority" for Verizon. "We built our voice platform so extensively [that] there was never a need for us to tell our customers, 'Oh, our network is not good enough so you need to go on Wi-Fi to complete your call.'"
He noted that when a call goes onto a Wi-Fi network, it's difficult for Verizon to guarantee the quality of service on that call, which is what Verizon has built its brand reputation on. That's a major reason Verizon waited so long to launch Voice over LTE service--it wanted to make sure it had adequate coverage that could replicate the voice experience of calls on its 3G CDMA network. Verizon has just started rolling out VoLTE service.
Other carriers are moving ahead with Wi-Fi calling plans. Ralph de la Vega, CEO of AT&T's Mobile & Business Solutions Group, said last week that AT&T will launch Wi-Fi calling in 2015 but that the carrier will use it only as a complement to Voice over LTE or 3G-based calling. "We don't have this burning desire" to use it to enhance coverage, he said.
The comments were notable in light of T-Mobile US' (NYSE:TMUS) announcement this week that heavily emphasized Wi-Fi calling and using personal routers to create Wi-Fi coverage areas in subscribers' homes. T-Mobile is the first and only U.S. carrier to support Wi-Fi calling on the new iPhone. Sprint (NYSE: S) also launched a Wi-Fi calling service for its Android smartphones this past February.
In terms of other hot topics, Shammo said Verizon would not be leasing phones, as Sprint is doing with its "iPhone for life" offering with the new iPhones. Under that program, individual customers will pay $20 a month for a 16 GB iPhone 6, instead of $30 under normal financing. At the end of 24 months, they can trade in their iPhone for a new iPhone. The iPhone 6 Plus will cost $25 per month under this program instead of $35 under normal financing. If a customer wants an iPhone with more internal storage they will pay more per month. The leasing program applies to families as well.
Shammo said Verizon offers its Edge handset-financing and early-upgrade program but that the "majority" of Verizon customers are still choosing subsidized handsets paired with two-year contracts. In contrast, AT&T said sales through its similar Next program represented around 50 percent of all smartphone sales in the second quarter.
Shammo also touched on whether Verizon might sell its wireless-tower assets, saying the company remains open to it. In the past, doing a deal "always came down to price and terms and conditions," which he said have become more favorable. He said that Verizon's network is experiencing high demand and that the company would like to retain the flexibility to add towers or add network gear to existing towers. "It's an option for us," he said. "We continue to look at it, and we'll see what happens."
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IOS 8: T-Mobile WiFi Calling on 5s issues

Is anyone out there having problems with WiFi calling w/ their iPhone on T-Mobile?
I updated my Wife's 5s to iOS 8, and enabled the feature in settings because we suffer from terrible calling performance on T-Mobile (1 maybe 2 bars of signal) in our home. She still drops calls regularly. I dropped a call three times while speaking with T-Mo support about it last night.
They told me that they had to provision the feature on the account, which they did a couple of days ago, but even after doing so, it still doesn't seem to be working. How can I tell if the iPhone is using WiFi on a call? Is there an option to force it to use WiFi for calls?
I have an (older, rectangle 2nd gen) Time Capsule in bridge mode that serves WiFi to the house, but I don't think it is the issue because other wireless devices work just fine and I have no other WiFi issues. Also, the other phones on our T-Mobile account are all Android phones that support WiFi calling and they all seem to be working flawlessly with WiFi calling and indicate when the phone is placing the call over WiFi.
So, aside from using a different WiFi base station (such as T-Mobile's new WiFi router - which I won't do unless it supports bridge mode because I have a much more robust Cisco firewall doing the routing) I can only conclude this is an Apple/T-Mobile issue with their implementation of WiFi calling.
Just wondered what other iOS 8 & T-Mobile users were seeing with WiFi calling.
Thanks in advance, any helpful info would be appreciated.
-Rob

@chattphotos: I didn't try pingtest, but with all due respect, I don't see the point. A connection with a 10ms ping and 100 down and 4 up should PLENTY!
@Hofstrajet: My wife's phone shows the same as the screenshot you posted. It definitely says T-Mobile Wifi
@Prelude_007 When you say you can connect at home, does that mean you can somehow make WiFi calls there? How do you know the call is actually going over WiFi from home and not Cellular? What is your cell signal like at home? At your work, it might not work because they probably are more restrictive with what kinds of traffic they will allow. It could be that your IT staff have firewall rules preventing anything but web and email traffic to pass. I am sure this VoIP protocol uses some different ports, but I haven't seen the details on how it was implemented yet.
My thoughts at this moment is that either there is an issue in iOS that may or may not be limited to the 5s, or that T-Mobile still needs to do something on their end.
The only thing I have left to try on my end is a different WiFi access point. but given that my Samsung Note 3, my son's Note 3, and another Galaxy S5 all have NO PROBLEMS making/taking WiFi calls, it has to be an Apple <-> T-Mobile issue.

What does the WiFi calling indicator look like on Lumia 640.

I have a new Lumia 640 with Wifi calling. The EE setup instructions talk about getting a message from them and then within 24hrs being switched on and the phone will show a 'Wifi Calling Indicator' What is this as there is no reference in Lumia userguide or on EE search for this Icon. What does it look like? Also when the phone is restarted the Wifi calling stops working and the EE WIfi tile dissappears from the main screen.

Hi I have today had a chat with the call centre. My phone was obtained from the EE shop in Weston super Mare and they activated the WIFI calling. It has worked intermittantly since the start date. The symbol for WiFi Calling is NOT shown in the EE icons list or the Microsoft Icons list for the Lumia 640 hence my original question. I have now seen it and know what it looks like, different from the Samsung phones. Why not a standard symbol? The Wifi calling keeps stopping working putting the phone into mobile data mode only despite the Wifi calling setting selection still being shown for Wifi calling as ON. When dragging down the top of the screen the second line shows EE 4G instead of EE WIFI 4G and the tile shows EE instead of EE WIFI.Basically the Lumia 640 is not providing WIFI calling reliably. Whether it is a phone software/hardware error or an EE problem is unknown and proving impossible to identify. As I have no signal most of the time this facility is essential to me, I don't even advertise my number as it has been unobtainable for the past two years.After waiting for 18 months for this facility as it stands I would not recommend this Lumia 640 phone and EE WIFI calling facility.RegardsRetired Orange/EE Planning Engineer

Been told by EE that Wifi Calling is currently down for majority of customers???

Hi,
i'm a new business sim only pay monthly customer. I signed up to EE a few days ago specifically for the wifi calling as I work from home in a rural area with very little mobile reception.
Have an IPhone 5S with ios 8.4, EE carrier 20 and WIfi calling enabled. Wifi calling has been activated by EE from their side (apparently twice) and I still have no 'EE WIfi' showing. After speaking to half a dozen first level tech reps over past two days I finally got put through to a second level tech agent who informed me that there is a known issue with wifi calling for a large number if customers but was reluctant to give me any other information even as to how long it had been going on for and how/when they would resolve it? He couldnt even explain why none of the other reps I had contacted knew of this. He has informed me that i am to wait for a text to let me know what is happening with resolving the issue- has anyone else been told this?

Hi
Like Burge advised even if you have a full signal as long as you are connected to Wi-Fi the W-Fi Calling will still work.
It's only if the Wi-Fi signal is 1 bar that the Wi-Fi Calling will drop out.
There was a provisioning issue but there was a fix put in place on Tuesday. So everything should be working fine now!
If you are still having issues it needs to go to level 2 tech to get a ticket raised.
Let me know how you get on.
are you having an issue with Wi-Fi Calling/
Thanks.

Can't connect to WiFi Calling

I'm having a problem with WiFi calling on a Samsung S6 edge, it never seems to connect. I've spoken to EE and they have confirmed that WiFi Calling is activated on my account, my phone has the correct firmware and the WiFi calling option is enabled in settings. I thought it could have been a problem with my home router but I've since swapped it for the original BT Home Hub 5 and the phone still won't connect. If anyone has any suggestions I would really appreciate them. Also, this is the first time I’ve ever posted in online forum, so HELLO WORLD!

Hi Danuals, Thank you very much for your response. I rang EE’s support number and they passed me to the 2 tier support team, who agreed with your diagnosis but said it takes a little time for them to change it from IPv4 to 6 so I just need to wait for it to be changed over. It actually turns out that because I live in an area with no mobile signal at all they are going to send me a free signal box to connect to my router. I have to say I’m very happy with EE’s support and also a very big thank you to you for pointing me in the right direction. Update: My WiFi calling is now working as well, it came on after 15 mins

Lumia 925 Wifi calling

Does Lumia 925 comes with Wifi calling on T-Mobile...???
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I have had a 925 since July 17th, first day on T-Moblie. There is a large icon on the screen for it. However, WIFI calling does not work. The T-Moblie tech support people have been overly delightful, charming, etc. However, even with changing out the Sim card, changing out the phone, it still does not work. I am now waiting for a third set of engineers to dazzle me with a solution.
You can quickly test out WiFi calling. Click the WiFi icon on the main screen. Set WiFi Calling to WiFi ONLY. Next check your wifi connection to the net by opeing the browser and connecting to a website of your choice. If you see it, your connected.
Once confirmed, now try to place a Call. It will quickly tell you that the call has ending, and you have no CELL connection.
Now, here is what I think is wrong. When you want to make a call over WiFi, you need to make a Internet network connection to a secure T-Moblie VOIP server first. Watching via packet sniffing on my network, I saw no such packet connections being attempted.
I hope they get this fixed soon.

WIFI Calling - outgoing volume is very low

Hello, I was recently given a Samsung S5 from my work for business use.I work reguarly from home, and the coverage is poor from inside my house! I recently looked on the EE website and found that i could upgrade the software on my phone to enable WIFI calling.I managed to do this which was very straightforward. The problem is now that although i can receive and make calls very easily through WIFI, the outgoing call volume is very low and people are struggling to hear me properly. To check it was WIFI causing this, i disabled WIFI and made the call again in an area of my house where i can get some reception. The volume was fine. So the issue is clearly with WIFI calling. I am not aware of a way to adjust my outgoing voice volume but i hope you can help.This causes me alot of issues and unecessary stress. I look forward to hearing from you. Regards Alan Craddock

I think I may have stumbled onto a fix. When looking at the call settings to type my post, above, I noticed there was a check box to enable/disable 'Noise reduction' (cuts out background noise, apparently). This was on. I switched it off, and the volume on WiFi calling is now OK. To find this setting in Android, go the the call screen, choose 'Settings', then 'Call'...uncheck the box labelled 'Noise reduction'. Hopefully there's some equivalent setting for those of you unfortunate enough to be using an Apple device ;-) Crash

Infinity and Wifi Calling on Orange

Has anybody else had issues with Wifi calling on Infinity? Using Blackberry Bold 9900 on Orange/EE. No problems before upgrade.

Yes I was on ADSL before and yes it was with BT. The router was a Zyxel rather than a BT one. I've tried all week with wifi calling and it is certainly not usable, because of break-up of speech.
I only got wifi calling on this Blackberry when they upgraded the software to 7.1 a few months ago, and it has been a revolution in mobile reception at home, which used to be very dodgy.
The download speed of web pages onto the phone through the wifi connection is excellent, because I can do that just fine with the mobile phone connection turned off and only the wifi connection live.

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