Or even IPV6 on compatible handsets.

Will wifi calling on Plusnet's service be any good - that was my question

Based on seeing people's experience of EE's wifi calling which was less than good.

At home I find EE wifi calling on my iPhone 6 excellent and voice quality is as good as EE VoLTE. Of course you do need a decent broadband connection, with good latency and a good wifi connection. Yet when I'm in my local marks & sparks their wifi is terrible so obviously wifi calling suffers as a result.

One other major advantage of wifi calling ( at least on EE) is that you can use wifi calling abroad using a VPN and therefore don't charged for calls and texts to uk - based on my experience.

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I'm still confused by having to go outside but still breaks up if the call is going via FTTC. Surely it is still going normally - just any costs are covered under the FTTC line rental and calls package?

I am sure he has EU roaming included with his allowance, But that is a good thing to know cheers

I agree, I guess when the WIFI drops it uses the normal way - but he finds his connection on his phone (Also a 6) to be really bad when using the WIFI calling and so because it's where he gets the best signal he goes out into the garden.

I've used the Three in touch app when I am at his as 3 gets little to no signal there - and it's worked just fine for me - so maybe it's his phone no idea.

Nothing to do with EU roaming, I have successfully used EE wifi calling in Chile, Qatar and New Zealand since April 2015 when WC first went live on iOS. This is on an EE account where overseas roaming is barred

Then it's nothing to do with his FTTC. By which I mean it isn't using it. It's an accounting thing to let him use his landline plan to make free calls.

I forget the details of how it works, but it worked for me using a BT App on my O2 mobile, with O2 broadband on a BT Retail landline. Instead of (for example) 0800 calls from my O2 phone/O2 call plan costing me, in the days 0800 wasn't free on mobiles, I used the BT App and that call was "charged" (= free) against my BT landline.

In reply to a post by 23Prince:

I agree, I guess when the WIFI drops it uses the normal way - but he finds his connection on his phone (Also a 6) to be really bad when using the WIFI calling and so because it's where he gets the best signal he goes out into the garden.

Generally if the Wifi is busy (e.g. in Hotels) you have to turn EE's WiFi calling off in the settings menu. I find if you have a house full of teenagers the WiFi can get saturated so much that it stops WiFi calling being usable.

Three and O2 use an app, Vodafone and EE use the features in the iPhone (Vodafone need 6S or later) to do the same thing, but you end up with only one set of texts etc.

In reply to a post by RobertoS:

I forget the details of how it works, but it worked for me using a BT App on my O2 mobile, with O2 broadband on a BT Retail landline. Instead of (for example) 0800 calls from my O2 phone/O2 call plan costing me, in the days 0800 wasn't free on mobiles, I used the BT App and that call was "charged" (= free) against my BT landline.

That's something completely different of course, and works if you have a BT landline - even works if you are overseas.

The WiFi calling feature is something built in to all iPhones (since the 5) and some Androids and works on EE and Vodafone today (Three coming soon) without adding an app. Vodafone only with 6S or later.

Its a good service if you have reliable low latency WiFi that isn't being maxed out by others, e.g. hotels and shopping centres. I tend to keep it switched off and only turn on if I'm somewhere with "No service" displayed which is a lot less on EE than it was on Vodafone.