Verizon iPhone 5 eventually will be able to do Voice over LTE?

[rritterson]

VoLTE is just VOIP, as all LTE traffic is IP-based. So, the phone should support it just fine and shouldn't require multiple antennae or anything to make it happen.

Kinda like how I can Skype and Bittorrent on Wifi at the same time.

That being said, Apple can easily write iOS such that it won't work on the iPhone 5.

 

[DDustiNN]

A lot of business people do. Talking on conference calls etc.

You know once VOLTE arrives everything will be data which means voice will also count to your 2 gb of data on the new shared plans. Part of the carriers plan...
Also LTE costs far less for the carriers to implement than continuing to do 3G because the equipment is cheaper and towers have greater range so fewer towers.

Makes sense, good point.

 

[zephxiii]

VoLTE is just VOIP, as all LTE traffic is IP-based. So, the phone should support it just fine and shouldn't require multiple antennae or anything to make it happen.

Kinda like how I can Skype and Bittorrent on Wifi at the same time.

That being said, Apple can easily write iOS such that it won't work on the iPhone 5.

VoLTE is "Not just VOIP" like a Skype app, it is a bit more involved with the network infrastructure with things like SRVCC, IMS etc. It is an actual standard that is integrated into LTE/IMS/and EUTRA unlike stand alone VoIP apps.

Also I believe FCC documentation mentioned VoLTE not being supported. So DO NOT get your hopes up.

EDIT: Yes it is confirmed that the iPhone 5 does not support VoLTE per Brian Klug's FCC report analysis.

So onto the iPhone – we know definitively that the iPhone 5 definitely doesn't support either SVDO or SVLTE. It's as simple as looking at the FCC documents and the appropriate sections in the allowed and tested simultaneous transmitters section for SAR (Specific Absorption Rate) testing. There, it's spelled out that only one air interface can be active at a time, and that only one antenna can be selected for transmit at a time. There's also an explicitly called out mention to VoLTE not being supported at present. I didn't replicate the entire table of simultaneous transmission combinations which need to be tested (it is a huge table) there are no entries with CDMA Voice being active at the same time as any data mode save WiFi. This has been confirmed as well by later statements by the carriers and Apple.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6295/...ous-voice-and-lte-or-evdo-svlte-svdo-support-

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