ATT: No WiFi Calling until 2015

[rui no onna]

Will it work? Who knows, but Apple is betting on this future with iPhone 6's built-in WiFi VoLTE capabilities.

WiFi calling is a separate issue from VoLTE. While WiFi calling poses a threat to their revenue stream (primarily for international roaming, I would think), VoLTE would be beneficial from a network management standpoint. VoLTE counts against your minutes and not your data allocation.

 

[Prise]

WiFi calling is a separate issue from VoLTE. While WiFi calling poses a threat to their revenue stream (primarily for international roaming, I would think), VoLTE would be beneficial from a network management standpoint. VoLTE counts against your minutes and not your data allocation.

With readily available wifi and a seamless handoff, a user can use voice over wifi and handoff to LTE without dropping the call. This will limit the amount of voice minutes use if the user hasn't adopted unlimited minutes, such as the old plan that I was on.

The result would be less overage charges, since those with limited minutes can rely more on wifi calling without a degradation in call reliability.

 

[AttilaTheHun]

From what I understand, WiFi calling seamlessly switches to cellular once you are out of WiFi range (and vice versa), correct? I think Republic Wireless does this.[/QUOT

I am on ATT using vonage Extensions on my iPhone so i got calls over wifi just be sure to set it to wifi only.
because if you loos wifi it switch to cell and ATT will will eat out your pocket

 

[rui no onna]

With readily available wifi and a seamless handoff, a user can use voice over wifi and handoff to LTE without dropping the call. This will limit the amount of voice minutes use if the user hasn't adopted unlimited minutes, such as the old plan that I was on.

The result would be less overage charges, since those with limited minutes can rely more on wifi calling without a degradation in call reliability.

I looked up T-Mobile's Wi-Fi Calling policy and apparently, it counts against your regular minutes. If/when AT&T implements Wi-Fi Calling, they'll likely do the same as T-Mobile so it seems like it wouldn't really be free minutes for those with limited minutes. Wi-Fi calling is bound to eat into international roaming fees though so AT&T might disable it for that.

How are calls and messages over Wi-Fi Calling billed?
There is no additional monthly charge to use Wi-Fi calling.

If you have a Pay In Advance line, calls made over Wi-Fi deduct from the plan bucket just like regular calls.

Otherwise, Wi-Fi calling uses monthly plan minutes for the following:

• Calls made from the US to US numbers
• Calls made from the US to international numbers (subject to international rates)
• Calls made from outside the US to US numbers (not charged roaming)
• Calls made from outside the US to international numbers (subject to international rates, but not charged roaming)
• Note: You must disable Data Roaming when traveling internationally to avoid incurring data roaming charges.

 

[uchosen]

I looked up T-Mobile's Wi-Fi Calling policy and apparently, it counts against your regular minutes. If/when AT&T implements Wi-Fi Calling, they'll likely do the same as T-Mobile so it seems like it wouldn't really be free minutes for those with limited minutes. Wi-Fi calling is bound to eat into international roaming fees though so AT&T might disable it for that.

Well, crap. Thought those regular minutes were not counted.
AT&T will definitely follow suit.