I have one remaining relative who is over 100 and she thinks mobile phones are from the devil, so I keep my landline purely for her 🤣

In reply to a post by dect:

I have one remaining relative who is over 100 and she thinks mobile phones are from the devil, so I keep my landline purely for her 🤣

Same, though she's 96 but just as adamant that any number prefix above 01xxx isn't to be trusted.

With VOIP I can have several phones which are kept in a fixed position and I can easily find one to make a call or answer if it rings. The problem with mobile phones is that they need a mobile radio signal which is quite probably available in urban areas but less so in rural areas.

Most providers have some form of calling over WiFi so as long as you have a phone that supports it you can make and receive mobile calls and texts without a mobile signal.

In reply to a post by Pheasant:

I’m beginning to think access to a “landline” is more about ingrained ‘generational’ outlook, expectation and force of habit…rather than genuine need. There are exceptions of course. Cue the storming of the landline staunch supporters.

There said it. Heresy mode off. 😂🙈

I did sign up and just made it under the wire for Sipgate Basic. I've not publicised the number (and I'm glad I didn't now !). I'd be happy to pay one or two quid/mth for a Voip service, but no more. As things are looking now, it looks as if when I end up having to lose our copper landline, that'll be that. It's only a handful of Octogenarian family (and scammers) that ring up on our landline, they will need to be retrained to ring us on our mobiles. Even if we say we will ring them straight back, so they avoid the mobile call rate charges.

YMMV

In reply to a post by Pheasant:

Heresy (for this subforum anyway), but here goes…

If you have a mobile with inclusive (perhaps unlimited) monthly minutes - do you really need a “landline”? It’s becoming an expensive luxury in some ways - as mobile phones once were thirty or more years ago….circles within circles.


There said it. Heresy mode off. 😂🙈

I have a mobile and network which works very well with WiFi calling (1p mobile on EE) but gf's mobile on Lebara/Vodafone doesn't work despite them saying it should.
p.s. I've tried her sim in my phone and that doesn't work with wifi calling either, apparently it's a problem with Vodafone.
p.p.s. In the days of my FTTC it was always amusing seeing a OR engineer wandering down the road trying to get a signal.

Edited by burble (Thu 24-Nov-22 12:49:04)

Similar to the PlusNet mobile offering (also EE). I had been with Three for years where wifi calling works perfectly (and I need it to make calls when inside the house) but I moved to Plusnet mobile. My mobile became almost unuseable so I moved back to Three.

In reply to a post by burble:

I have a mobile and network which works very well with WiFi calling (1p mobile on EE) but gf's mobile on Lebara/Vodafone doesn't work despite them saying it should.
p.s. I've tried her sim in my phone and that doesn't work with wifi calling either, apparently it's a problem with Vodafone.
p.p.s. In the days of my FTTC it was always amusing seeing a OR engineer wandering down the road trying to get a signal.

Lebara wifi calling only works in Switzerland. I might try the next time I go there.

In reply to a post by Michael_Chare:

In reply to a post by burble:

I have a mobile and network which works very well with WiFi calling (1p mobile on EE) but gf's mobile on Lebara/Vodafone doesn't work despite them saying it should.
p.s. I've tried her sim in my phone and that doesn't work with wifi calling either, apparently it's a problem with Vodafone.
p.p.s. In the days of my FTTC it was always amusing seeing a OR engineer wandering down the road trying to get a signal.

Lebara wifi calling only works in Switzerland. I might try the next time I go there.

Lebara WiFi calling works for some in UK, it should work for gf (she has had sms telling her it will work) and on my phone but if the phone isn't supplied by Vodafone it often doesn't work even if that model of phone is supported.
https://mobile.lebara.com/gb/en/wifi-volte

In reply to a post by burble:

. . . gf's mobile on Lebara/Vodafone doesn't work despite them saying it should.

I recently signed up to Lebara (which is a white label seller for Vodafone) and had to cancel as soon as I tried the sim. According to the Lebara customer service WiFi calling only worked on Android 11 so my mobile on Android 10 was out of scope.

Since I left I've had a text from Lebara saying that WiFi calling is now enabled for me so maybe there has been a fix rolled out in the last few days.

As a side note, WiFi calling was enabled from day 1 on Asda Mobile (also VF re-seller) after I moved from Lebara.

Edit: Further to your last post, my phone is a Samsung originally supplied by Three. I've got a dual sim set-up (1 x Vodafone and 1 x Asda Mobile) and WiFi calling works on both sims.

Edited by GonePostal (Thu 24-Nov-22 15:32:44)