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AT&T WiFi Calling Now Available for Some iOS 9 Users
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Its working for me this morning. You should give it a shot now.
Actually I believe this is incorrect. Any carrier could choose to use it in iOS 8 as ATT said it was working on infrastructure to enable the functionality but had no date yet.
You may "believe it to be incorrect" but it's NOT because other carriers hadn't chosen to or were still working on said infrastructure Apple chose to ONLY have the support on the software side of things in iOS 8 incarnations
Do some research if you wish
When your phone has the
"AT&T WiFi" network banner just make a call or multiple calls and chat away
I don't see that banner, I enrolled over an hour ago. I just see the old WiFi signal icon.
It ONLY Comes on when your phone or AT&T deem you to have "low" or "poor" network quality
Alternatively you can force it on by turning on Airplane mode then reactive WiFi on your phone since for some reason Apple insists on WiFi turning off in Airplane mode
Not sure if anyone else has reported this, but WiFi calling on AT&T is working in Kansas City as of this morning.
Hadn't seen anyone mention it but today AT&T seems to be in high speed rollout for the Beta of this feature not that I'm in Kansas
Just enabled it after checking on and off since it was announced. I'm in in downtown Durham NC.
I see. Well I'm in a very poor reception area (one dot) and it won't switch over, I tried the airplane mode trick and that didn't work either. Am I doing something wrong?
Anyone have information on which ports this is using? I don't mind people connecting to our WiFi in our office, but imagine if I have 20 people on WiFi calling, with each call consuming up to 1Mbps of traffic, how quickly can I run out of Bandwidth? And no, it won't happen all the time, but it will happen.
Waterbury, CT area went live this evening. Interestingly I don't have VoLTE yet and I'm pretty sure it isn't deployed yet in my area.
Seeing I am not in a VoLTE area it drops the call when leaving the wifi network. It drops it when transitioning from wifi to cellular (3G or LTE).
Seeing I am not in a VoLTE area it drops the call when leaving the wifi network. It drops it when transitioning from wifi to cellular (3G or LTE).
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Well then either you're doing something wrong or it's NOT Available to you yet.
Keep trying
The ONLY Other thing I can think of is there may not be a good enough WiFi signal or compatible WiFi Network near you
I've definitely noticed not ALL WiFi networks seem compatible with the service ( I've tried several so far home at work and just out in public)
Could be any number of reasons though equipment or software issues of the phone or the network you're connecting to, ISP issues including maybe compatibility.
As crappy as many people say Comcast is so far the best WiFi Calling I've done
Is With Comcast/Xfinity WiFi
Also only slightly shockingly the following provider HotSpots
AT&T ( Not surprised since it's their own internet and Network )
T-Mobile HotSpots
Others I haven't tried or the providers/networks ISP wasn't known at the time I tried this yielded spotty coverage or crappy WiFi calling experience
Feel free to thumb thru my other posts to see my observations.
I'm thoroughly Beta testing WiFi calling for a variety of reasons
YOu misunderstood what i wrote. ATT didn't enable it to work in iOS 8. but they could have if they chose to...
Here ya go. Anyway, it's all moot. AT&T is choosing to turn it on now in their network.
http://www.slashgear.com/ios-8-wifi-calling-heres-which-carriers-will-offer-it-19347246/
WiFi calling is one of the neat features available on iOS 8 and the iPhone 6, but not everyone is ready to make it happen for you. The function still needs carrier support, and that’s not up to Apple. Now that the major carriers have chimed in, we get a full rundown of which support WiFi calling — and why you might not even care if they don’t yet.