AT&T and Verizon Announce Voice Over LTE Interoperability for 2015

[C DM]

T-Mobile was rolling it out May of 2014:
http://support.t-mobile.com/communi...obile-begins-rolling-out-voice-over-lte-volte

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http://appleinsider.com/articles/14...sents-42-of-smartphones-owned-in-the-us---npd

So basically 42% of 66% of all phones in US...meaning about 28% of all phones in US.

 

[kd5jos]

So basically 42% of 66% of all phones in US...meaning about 28% of all phones in US.

You forgot to include corded phones though. He said phones right? And corded phones are phones right? No, the implication was OBVIOUSLY smart phones. In January of this year 42% of smart phones were iPhones. If he rounded up to 50% I can allow for it considering the number of iPhones that were sold over the last few months.

 

[octothorpe8]

FaceTime Audio = iDevice to iDevice
Phone Call = Phone to any other phone regardless of the brand or carrier.

Stop living in you fantasy world where everyone uses FaceTime Audio because almost nobody does.

Calm down. We all understand the difference between a phone call and a FaceTime Audio call, dude.

FaceTime Audio works NOW and very well if you're calling anyone with a fairly up-to-date iPhone. No you can't call a random person with it most of the time, but where it works it works brilliantly.

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I completely agree with Black Magic. I have AT&T and regular voice calls are so inferior compared to FaceTime Audio. I prefer to use Facetime Audio, but the problem is that not all the people I contact have enough data to use it.

I talked to my girlfriend for exactly an hour on FT Audio the other night and the total was 38MB, which seemed pretty reasonable given the high fidelity. Unless you're doing a lot of talking off wifi, you'd be getting over 24 hours of calling per GB of data. And like I said, that's assuming you don't connect to wifi at all.

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so now my voice calls will count against my data plan? No thanks, I will turn it off if at all possible.

Well they made all the plans "unlimited minutes", so they have to rip you off *somehow*, right?