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EE Wifi Calling
Smurf001
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There seems to be people on this forum that have good knowledge of the mobile networks.
Has anyone heard any definite news on EE Wifi calling? Such as when it is due to start.
Has anyone heard any definite news on EE Wifi calling? Such as when it is due to start.
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Don't think anyone knows any more than on the web site. I would assume since the WiFi calling is powered by IMS that it would need the customer to be a 4G subscriber, so therefore on EE rather than the older brands / tariffs.
http://ee.co.uk/ee-and-me/network/wifi-calling
Do you have any ideas on release date?
I had not realised it could be potentially delayed for that long as I have heard rumours in-store advisers are telling customers it is already live.
I think I might start investigating the O2 Wifi app. The reviews I have read to date say that it is not brilliant, but it has to be better than no signal at all.
I do however understand that this is a big network network configuration chnage as not as simple as 3 and O2s solution with using an add app EE will all do it automatic and selct whether to use wifi or mobile network and am told its incoming calls that are most difficult side
Says Wifi calling will be available autumn 2014
Oh dear, dear, dear, you really are clutching at straws aren't you. I tried the O2 app known, for some strange reason, as Tu Go some months back before doing the sensible thing of jumping ship altogether. That app is pathetic. It in no way integrates with the phone insofar there are no ringtone or messaging tone choices. Using this app when you get an incoming call the phone will ring with a bell tone like an old style fixed line phone. No choice. Messaging doesn't always work and on several phones we tried with incoming calls you couldn't always actually answer them. Sliding the answer button would often not achieve anything.
Further, if you use this app because you are in a no network signal area you will get your SMS messages [that's if you hear them with the single bleep tone - can't change it]
and if you are in this state for some time and receive many SMS messages via this app as soon as you reconnect to the O2 network, you will receive all the messages again!! How useful is that? There are no settings round this and I had many emails and chats with the O2 people developing this app and they had no idea if they would be able to get round this problem.
Despite all this, if you wan't to use it, go ahead!
To be honest if the only problems are not being able to have a fancy ring tone and receiving messages twice then it's a lot better than the service I am paying EE for.
However I'm sure we'll know more in a week or two..
I had obviously misunderstood initially and expected it to start with iOS 8 and I suspect a lot of others thought the same.
It was Apple that worded it wrong in the iPhone 6 announcement, they said "T-Mobile in the US and EE in the UK would have day one support" or something like that, so obviously you would assume that means straight away from iOS 8 launch.
I've read a few articles on American sites talking about it on T-Mobile in the US and they mention it on EE in the UK as if it's launched already.
Gives me a 5 bar 3g signal all over the house so I can use it and make / receive calls.
Works on EE / orange / T Mobile. I beleive Vodaphone have a similar gadget.
I might be wrong but I thought I read somewhere EE had discontinued issuing these devices but no doubt someone can correct me if I'm wrong
I looked at buying a signal box on ebay but EE told me unless they were purchased direct from them they would not activate it.
It isn't WiFi calling at all. It's a 3G signal box so you are making a 3G call just like you would outside except the mast is a small plastic box in your house rather than a dirty great 30M lattice tower!
So where do I get one of these widgets then?
They sound very good.
Anyone would think we hadn't been discussing them for the last 2 flippin years!!
Hahahahahha
Sorry, I'll get me coat!
: )
A few weeks ago in their forum they said it was being finalised and it will be live this year.
http://community.ee.co.uk/t5/Announcements-from-EE/EE-testing-lab-announces-voice-over-wifi/m-p/195449#M2767
EE will activate it, you just have to get the right person. Make sure you're a contract customer is the first thing I'd say.
Also by not upgrading it still gives me the option to move to O2 who already have wifi calling, but I would prefer not to move to O2 if I can avoid it.
The TuGo app is not "wifi calling" as is being discussed in this thread. It's a standalone app, like the Three In Touch app.
Absolutely correct, subject to what I've said above. If you're concerned about coverage, why not get a free PAYG SIM for each network and check it out in actual use in all the areas you are in. That way, you will have a definitive answer to your problems.