Completely agree …. Wifi calling all the way

In reply to a post by Thaumaturge:

In reply to a post by broadbandjockey:

Which reminds me, weren't Ofcom supposed to announce this month the procedure to be able to port out your 'landline' phone number to a Third Party VoIP supplier, without it killing your broadband service ?

Not heard of this one, but it would be good if it did happen. I had to wait till I got FTTP installed to transfer my landline to 3rd party VoIP. I complained to Ofcom at the time, and their reply said that they recognised the problem but fell short of actually promising to do anything about it.

Was it part of the one touch switching thing, due to come in 1 April, which has been delayed 'cos lots of ISPs aren't ready?

It may well be a 'sub-set' of that initiative.

Until the net goes down like it did for a friend in Somerset on Wednesday who lives in a small village with poor Mobile coverage, so she was without communication for 19 hours, I was following the Giga.net status online

Conversely I was without a connection on my copper phone line for a week after TT disconnected it, but my FTTP had no problems.

In reply to a post by Zarjaz:

Completely agree …. Wifi calling all the way

This may not be entirely on-topic, but didn't seem worth starting a new thread... wifi calling is available on my iPhone 12 (with Vodafone) but I've never enabled it, not really sure why. Possibly because I understand it even less than the rest of it and don't know the pros and cons

Are there any significant gotchas if I turn it on?

In reply to a post by billford:

Are there any significant gotchas if I turn it on?

If you have good signal everywhere you go, you may not need it. My company phone is Vodafone and I use WiFi Calling in my front room as despite 25 Mbps data speeds, the people I call always complained about voice quality. Turning on WiFi calling solved that.

If you frequently connect to WiFi in places that might be congested (e.g. hotels, conference centres etc) where the mobile network signal is likely to be good, you might find WiFi Calling is a problem. This is why we have the switch!

In reply to a post by The_Voyager:

Until the net goes down like it did for a friend in Somerset on Wednesday who lives in a small village with poor Mobile coverage, so she was without communication for 19 hours, I was following the Giga.net status online

Same problem with power cuts, the internet and the mobile networks both disappear. I'm in a major conurbation and we had 3 hours of nothing back in 2017.

I haven't had any real problems with mobile calls at home, but a usual 2 bars with an occasional 1 bar (indoors or out!) is certainly nothing to get excited about. Sounds like enabling wifi might be a sensible pre-emptive strike, so to speak.

As you say, I can always turn it off again! Thanks.

Yes but more than likely anyone with a PSTN home phoneline over copper would still have had a connection to the world

In reply to a post by The_Voyager:

Yes but more than likely anyone with a PSTN home phoneline over copper would still have had a connection to the world

Agreed, and why there has been a lot of angst around the end-of-life of the PSTN.

(Only because the telephone exchanges had rooms full of batteries!)