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iOS 9 Beta 5 Tidbits: New Wallpapers, WiFi Calling for AT&T Users, and More
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Carriers in some other countries have had wifi calling for a while as well - in Hong Kong Smartone & 3HK have supported it since iOS 8.3.
https://www.smartone.com/en/services_and_apps/WiFi-Calling/index.jsp
http://iphone.three.com.hk/website/eng/why3/vo-wifi.html
Seems like misplaced cynicism, that wouldn't make any sense. Wifi calling is presumably not using ATT data, it is some other wifi AP that you are locally connected to. Unless that AP happens to be on someone else's personal hotspot who is connected to ATT and has an old plan, but if they can get enough bars to support that, why wouldn't you just use your cellular connection for the call any way?
Maybe one day they will figure out how to not force icon auto arranging to the top of each page so keep them at the bottom of the pages so you don't have to do the super reach or touchy/glitchy double home button click to reach an icon. And I can see more of the wallpaper even better lets have a large clock/weather widget type option to fill that space. Oh and let people change default notification sounds for third party apps. Such simple tweaks that would make a big difference in user experience. Well at least for me. I still think iOs is due for a huge ui restructure. It's still easy to use but not as quick and efficient to use as I would like it to be. iOs 6 jailbroken was my favorite smartphone experience.
Except that some carriers in Canada charge roaming, I believe, when Wi-Fi calling is used abroad.
As crazy as that sounds, I could've sworn I read at least one post from a Canadian recently who said that Wi-Fi calling was treated as roaming by their carrier when used outside of Canada. I have no idea how the carrier would manage to charge roaming on a Wi-Fi call but according to that person, they do.
Edit: Here's a screenshot of the Rogers Wireless Wi-Fi calling plans in Canada. They don't say anything about international roaming or international long distance with Wi-Fi calling. If AT&T does something like this, Wi-Fi calling will be useless unless you're somewhere in the U.S. that has no cell service but has Wi-Fi:
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Beautiful wallpapers ruined by stupid gray dock and folders. No way Jony Ive likes that. Please surprise me this fall Apple. I don't think those black wallpapers were put there by accident.
Did you actually read the article? I quote, "Previously, WiFi calling was limited to T-Mobile and Sprint."
still crashing in Excel, but aside is working nice. either it's me or the left page with siri suggestions, etc, seems to load instantly now or at least faster on my air 2.
iOS 8 has black wallpapers with the same theme (space & flowers). I think OLED drops in 2016. This year ForceTouch will be "the killer new display feature".
This is unlikely.
Cellular providers LOVE WiFi calling because it saves them air bandwidth. Think about it, all those people yacking away on their phones at home are NO LONGER using spectrum on the tower. It's like a network upgrade for them that doesn't cost much to implement.
Dear professional writer: "Apple's" is a possessive form, not a contraction of "Apple has". Should be: "Apple has debuted", or "Apple debuted" for short.
The "how" they would do it is specified in that dialog box in the picture in the original post....they make use of location services to determine where you are....probably a combination of GPS and IP address.
The fact that they want to charge roaming is just a money grab. Costs them nothing additional to complete a call (in fact probably less than having to use a local cell tower).
This might be the first beta that I may consider running on my main phone. It's nice and snappy on my iPad. 
Once some time has passed for any showstopper bugs to be discovered I may do a phone backup and upgrade.
Once some time has passed for any showstopper bugs to be discovered I may do a phone backup and upgrade.
It's pretty insane that a provider would charge you roaming to use WiFi calling.
The whole reason providers charge roaming is because the cellular provider you're roaming on charges YOUR provider for the data and minutes you use. If you're on WiFi this doesn't apply as you're not using the foreign carrier's services.
Just when you think you're done hearing about more idiotic things this week...
iPhone 5 here (6s soon!), on AT&T with the new beta. However, I have no option under the PHONE item in SETTINGS in regards to Wi-fi calling. Anyone else, or just me? I've tried rebooting, etc.
Ahhh, good eye, sir! I missed seeing that screenshot in the post. I bet that AT&T will charge roaming when outside the U.S. and they will also not allow for "free" international calls over Wi-Fi. I hope I'm wrong but I doubt I will be. They'll likely live up to the "greedy bastards" moniker that John Legere continues to bestow upon them.
For those enabling this, keep a close eye on your data usage, and file bugs if anything seems off.
Apple previously tried to add this feature I think with iOS 6 betas. I ended up with 15GB of overage across a few nights due to something crashing, then uploading the crash dump over cellular instead of WiFi. Engineering was very responsive on trying to track this down, and I think ultimately pulled the feature due to this happening to several of us.
This time around I have confidence this may ship with iOS 9 final, as I believe the Siri multipath tech they built up improved enough to make this feature more reliable.