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T-Mobile's New 'Digits' Service Lets Customers Use Multiple Numbers Across All Their Devices
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About time. I believe Europe has had this feature. I've been using Google Voice # with Hangouts to get this capability on phones, tablets and computers but there's no Hangouts on Galaxy Gear S3 Frontier watch with LTE. Good thing to know there's now a working alternative solution.
There have been multiple FREE solutions that I've been using for more than ten years, flawlessly, as have millions (billions?) of others.
So now T-Mobile wants to try it's have at it too? This is barely news.
Actually no, there hasn't been a solution like this before. There are of course numerous VoIP apps, but they run over the Internet and are not able to take advantage of the QoS-enhanced voice transport that is available in carrier core and access networks. As a result, all of these apps are less than reliable when the Internet connection is weak or congested.
You have always, and will continue to, be able to access iMessages via Apple devices only.
Perhaps for smaller VOIP services with bottlenecks but the benefit of using Google Voice is Google has direct internet peering with many ISPs. Google Voice quality has been top notch for me either on LTE or broadband.
Yes, I was referring to the previous poster's question about call forwarding.
And yes, there is some overlap with Apple's Continuity features (when combined with Wifi calling so you don't have to be on the same Wifi network as a nearby phone) in terms of multi-device calling, but Continuity cannot handle multiple phone numbers and is limited to Apple devices and computers.
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That doesn't help at all if you are e.g. on a shaky wireless access. I use VoIP apps myself, and have often had problems (dropouts, severe quality degradation or long latency) e.g. on overloaded hotel WLANs or in areas with congested or weak cellular data coverage.
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Smart ones would stay away from that, would not want calls/texts from the other number coming to the phone that's near a spouse.cheaters and adulterers are porting over to T-mobile.
Except 90% of the time, apple had patented it years before it ever hit market and they just perfected it instead of rushing it to market
What a terrible ****ing video. How about you actually educate your customers on technical terminology instead of translating it to stupid ****.
And then we wonder why half of the country is ******* stupid AF.
And then we wonder why half of the country is ******* stupid AF.
Why would they do that? If one were to cheat, then surely using one phone with all the information stored on it is a disaster waiting to happen when caught?cheaters and adulterers are porting over to T-mobile.
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203032
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If your carrier supports Wi-Fi Calling on iCloud-connected devices, you can also make and receive Wi-Fi calls on other devices. You can use Wi-Fi Calling on these devices, even if your iPhone isn't on the same Wi-Fi Network or turned on:
- iPad or iPod touch with iOS 9 or later
- Apple Watch with watchOS 2 or later
- Mac (2012 or later model) with OS X El Capitan
Nothing prevents Apple from connecting their iMessage service to an RCS gateway and make this work. Just a matter of will. It seems there is no will though.
The cool thing for you is that service for Verizon will continue to get better because of all the T-Mobile innovation causing other Verizon customers to leave. I guess that's a win for you.
Has anybody been on their beta tests and can share some experiences? T-Mo said they release this early 2017. There is a DIGIT App in the app store but it seems to be just a VoIP app.