@zabbeer
Yes, Fairphone is one of the options I am looking at. Do you know anything about what cell services they work with and if they can do wifi calls? Those are my next aspects to look into.
@bhaugen @zabbeer@fosstodon.org @bob @humanetech@mastodon.social @Fairphone
When you say wifi calls, do you mean your (phone number) provider's native service (VoWi-Fi) or some other VoIP usage?
@bhaugen @zabbeer@fosstodon.org @bob @humanetech@mastodon.social @Fairphone
Voice-over-WiFi or "wifi calling" is basically and hyped-up term for #VoIP (which is also the basis of VoLTE)
VoWiFi and VoLTE both use slightly "enhanced" versions of VoIP protocols to communicate with the core network. It's just that with VoLTE, the traffic is via the IP connection on the mobile Radio Access Network (cell tower) (with some QoS assurances) where as with VoWiFI it is using your internet to reach the core network.
@keith
Thanks. Since we have no cell tower access, we must be using VoWiFI...
@keith
I mean my phone number provider's voice-over-wifi service.
Republic Wireless provided their own software for doing this for some years, altho I understand that the newer phones can do it on their own.
But I don't understand the technology very well. I was introduced to wifi calling by some neighbors who got into it first to bypass our bad cell service.
@zabbeer @bob @humanetech @Fairphone