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Verizon Gets Green Light on FCC Waiver Needed for Wi-Fi Calling

AdonisSMU said:
Huh? What does starbucks have to do with anything? Im not religious or conservative at all. I dont give a ---- about a snowman on a cup.


Its you not reading the article. The article clearly states necessary waiver.
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Electromagnetic frequency spectrum is a resource that we all have to share. Yes, it's necessary for someone to police that to prevent interference and abuse; and yes, the government would be the logical one to do so. That the government has rules that require access to hearing impaired people may be something you want to debate, but personally I'm for that. I think it's better if the spectrum is available for use by everyone.
 
AppleFan91 said:
Hooray!!! Now put it in 9.2 lol
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Is it only 9.2? I'm running the public beta. It's great. I turned it on when AT&T sent me a message. I used to have to have a microcell to get reception throughout my apartment, but now no calls ever drop. And the second part is that calls ring everywhere instantly, not with delays. Best of all, my wifi iPad is also a place I can originate calls from by saying, "Call Joe." My name comes up in caller ID, just like a phone. And I've got to see what happens if I go to a Starbucks, sign into wireless on my iPad with my phone at home-- I think it will still work!
 
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rdlink said:
Total load of crap. Their network is no better than anyone else's (except for Sprint) in most major cities. I just sold a house in a highly dense suburban neighborhood of Denver, and Verizon's signal was miserable at my house for the last 11 years. They refused to do anything about it, saying it was a "fringe" area. To be fair, everyone else had a bad signal there, also. But Verizon is the one touting the strongest network in America, and charging me a premium price for their vaunted network.

Don't be fooled. This will definitely be utilized by Verizon customers.
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Every network doesn't have every square inch of terra firma covered. But I do a lot of traveling and found in general Verizons vaunted network has the best coverage for my needs.
 
Gasu E. said:
Electromagnetic frequency spectrum is a resource that we all have to share. Yes, it's necessary for someone to police that to prevent interference and abuse; and yes, the government would be the logical one to do so. That the government has rules that require access to hearing impaired people may be something you want to debate, but personally I'm for that. I think it's better if the spectrum is available for use by everyone.
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The form of communication for the deaf that this superannuates is not used by many. It dates back to the modem era. Texting and the degree of accessibility that smartphone's give-- Apple above all-- is far superior.
 
Msail30bay said:
WHAT!!!!???? :mad: Have I been in dreamland ................ I thought I already have it on the darn iPhone 6....S....., NOW a warning!! It's going to be in the "near future" o_O
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It is on the iPhone. It's taken the carriers a long time to switch over.
 
Gasu E. said:
Electromagnetic frequency spectrum is a resource that we all have to share. Yes, it's necessary for someone to police that to prevent interference and abuse; and yes, the government would be the logical one to do so. That the government has rules that require access to hearing impaired people may be something you want to debate, but personally I'm for that. I think it's better if the spectrum is available for use by everyone.
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I agree with that actually. Someone already explained it to me. It makes sense.
 
k1121j said:
unless you have no service it sucks at least on att its just as bad as the microcell its takes forever to place a call and then you are lucky if they can hear you when they pickup I keep mine turned off this is my experience with wifi calling
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I have had good results with my AT&T (Cisco) Microcell. Which one do you have the white one, or the black one?
 
I guess this is nice for people who live somewhere where they happen to have good internet and poor cell service, but for me I have never found a place on Verizon where I have good wifi and bad cell service.
 
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mrkramer said:
I guess this is nice for people who live somewhere where they happen to have good internet and poor cell service, but for me I have never found a place on Verizon where I have good wifi and bad cell service.
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Verizon is typically good in New York, but I would still rather place calls over my very fast wi-fi. I try to use FaceTime Audio, which I love, and sounds amazing, but people usually think it's a FaceTime video call and don't pick up, or they see a missed FaceTime call and then call me back with FaceTime Video and then I don't pick up.

Wi-fi calling is what we've been waiting for!!!
 
Zorn said:
Verizon is probably the least important carrier to enable this, since their coverage map is so strong compared to the others.
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This is silly. Tell that to someone who gets zero cellular coverage at his gym but has wifi available (me). I don't know where this whole Verizon's network is wonderful notion comes from. This will be very beneficial to me and I would guess a lot of other people as well.
 
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mrkramer said:
I guess this is nice for people who live somewhere where they happen to have good internet and poor cell service, but for me I have never found a place on Verizon where I have good wifi and bad cell service.
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There are definitely all kinds of buildings where that is the case. Sure not everyone is in those kinds of buildings even sometimes, let alone often, but plenty people are, either because, for example, that's where they visit often enough or because that's where they work or sometimes because that's where they live.
 
k1121j said:
unless you have no service it sucks at least on att its just as bad as the microcell its takes forever to place a call and then you are lucky if they can hear you when they pickup I keep mine turned off this is my experience with wifi calling
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Punctuation is a good thing. But in any case, my wifi calling with att is perfect. You must have a defective phone.
 
Zorn said:
Verizon is probably the least important carrier to enable this, since their coverage map is so strong compared to the others.
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Hey, where I live, I get better reception with T-Mobile. I needed this when I had Verizon. So cheers.
 
SlipperySlop said:
Punctuation is a good thing. But in any case, my wifi calling with att is perfect. You must have a defective phone.
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Thanks for the tip(.) Nope not the phone there is a few here to chose from and my isp speed is 75 mb. So I'm my experience wifi and mcell calling sucks with the call delay unless you have no service It only makes taking/making a call take longer
 
So when will this be turned on already. I just had a 1 hour phone call used 25% of my batter due to low signal. This is getting ridiculous
 
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I was so pumped when I read this news article, but nobody here seems to be angry that you have to make all your WiFi calls through Verizon's stupid Messaging App so maybe I'm misunderstanding the news? 90% of my calls are incoming, not outgoing, using their app requires the wifi call to be outgoing.

Does Verizon not understand the beauty of the iPhone? Take for instance:
  • Call forwarding doesn't use the excellent GUI within iOS like AT&T's does
  • Using the phone while on the Internet is a new feature and requires VOLTE to be turned on and be in an LTE area to work. This has worked from day one on AT&T. This is needed on almost every call I receive.
  • I have to turn off/on VOLTE every time I leave my house for it to work because of my microcell, this should be seamless.
  • Now this with the WiFi calling not using the native dialer/receiver?
I'm stuck with Verizon because it's a company phone. Any suggestions?
 
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UniqueUserName said:
I was so pumped when I read this news article, but nobody here seems to be angry that you have to make all your WiFi calls through Verizon's stupid Messaging App so maybe I'm misunderstanding the news? 90% of my calls are incoming, not outgoing, using their stupid app requires the wifi call to be outgoing.

Does Verizon not understand the beauty of the iPhone? Take for instance:
  • Call forwarding doesn't use the excellent GUI within iOS like AT&T's does
  • Using the phone while on the Internet is a new feature and requires VOLTE to be turned on and be in an LTE area to work. This has worked from day one on AT&T. This is needed on almost every call I receive.
  • I have to turn off/on VOLTE every time I leave my house for it to work because of my microcell, this should be seamless.
  • Now this with the WiFi calling not using the native dialer/receiver?
I'm stuck with Verizon because it's a company phone. Any suggestions?
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I may be wrong, but I think the intent is to have it activated natively within the phone. No need to use the Verizon Messaging App.
 
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theman510 said:
I may be wrong, but I think the intent is to have it activated natively within the phone. No need to use the Verizon Messaging App.
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Every site that talks in detail regarding the waiver mentions that the delivery is different than Sprint, att, et al:

http://www.techtimes.com/articles/1...ing-imminent-as-fcc-gives-the-green-light.htm

If I was okay with an app, I'd just use Skype. Verizon is totally missing the boat on this.

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Ok, I must have misread the articles. This is a good thing, not Verizon being "Verizon":
http://www.zdnet.com/article/verizon-asks-for-fcc-waiver-to-offer-native-wi-fi-calling-services/
 
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