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Why do you need to turn off VoLTE to use the Network Extender?
Much speculation on the interwebs is out there, going back well over a year. My VZW rep offered that it's simply incompatible tech, along with other "older" VZW options like their Caller Name ID (which I had to disable), Ringback Tones, and a few legacy Business options (which we also had to disable). The VZW unit works on the carrier's 1X "layer", switching between 1X and LTE will drop the call - I'm guessing that VZW has disabled/blocked some services that rely on 1X to avoid call drops. The phones connecting to the NE would disable data when a call was initiated - VZW never moved to Enhanced CDMA back in the day, and only a few Android phones were capable of simultaneous 3G data and 1X calls. And, it's not an iOS thing - there's Android users griping about the same thing.

I'm in a fringe area on a job site, and I've found that disabling VoLTE has yielded a more-solid LTE data connection and I'm not missing calls now like when I had VoLTE enabled. No internet yet here, so the old NE is still in the box...

I had an ATTWS line up to a few years ago and had a Microcell - different tech in that box, still hated it. The VZW NE worked well for voice calls. I'm back with ATTWS and now carry one iPhone 6S for each network. I have strong enough of a signal on my ATTWS iP6S that I've enabled VoLTE and HD Voice across carriers is frickin' awesome; I've not been around wifi yet so no feedback on that feature yet...
 
Much speculation on the interwebs is out there, going back well over a year. My VZW rep offered that it's simply incompatible tech, along with other "older" VZW options like their Caller Name ID (which I had to disable), Ringback Tones, and a few legacy Business options (which we also had to disable). The VZW unit works on the carrier's 1X "layer", switching between 1X and LTE will drop the call - I'm guessing that VZW has disabled/blocked some services that rely on 1X to avoid call drops. The phones connecting to the NE would disable data when a call was initiated - VZW never moved to Enhanced CDMA back in the day, and only a few Android phones were capable of simultaneous 3G data and 1X calls. And, it's not an iOS thing - there's Android users griping about the same thing.

I'm in a fringe area on a job site, and I've found that disabling VoLTE has yielded a more-solid LTE data connection and I'm not missing calls now like when I had VoLTE enabled. No internet yet here, so the old NE is still in the box...

I had an ATTWS line up to a few years ago and had a Microcell - different tech in that box, still hated it. The VZW NE worked well for voice calls. I'm back with ATTWS and now carry one iPhone 6S for each network. I have strong enough of a signal on my ATTWS iP6S that I've enabled VoLTE and HD Voice across carriers is frickin' awesome; I've not been around wifi yet so no feedback on that feature yet...

Thank you for that response. Definitely some interesting background information for why it never worked. Thanks again.
 
Much speculation on the interwebs is out there, going back well over a year. My VZW rep offered that it's simply incompatible tech, along with other "older" VZW options like their Caller Name ID (which I had to disable), Ringback Tones, and a few legacy Business options (which we also had to disable). The VZW unit works on the carrier's 1X "layer", switching between 1X and LTE will drop the call - I'm guessing that VZW has disabled/blocked some services that rely on 1X to avoid call drops. The phones connecting to the NE would disable data when a call was initiated - VZW never moved to Enhanced CDMA back in the day, and only a few Android phones were capable of simultaneous 3G data and 1X calls. And, it's not an iOS thing - there's Android users griping about the same thing.

I'm in a fringe area on a job site, and I've found that disabling VoLTE has yielded a more-solid LTE data connection and I'm not missing calls now like when I had VoLTE enabled. No internet yet here, so the old NE is still in the box...

I had an ATTWS line up to a few years ago and had a Microcell - different tech in that box, still hated it. The VZW NE worked well for voice calls. I'm back with ATTWS and now carry one iPhone 6S for each network. I have strong enough of a signal on my ATTWS iP6S that I've enabled VoLTE and HD Voice across carriers is frickin' awesome; I've not been around wifi yet so no feedback on that feature yet...

Thanks for your explanation and additional info!
 
Can it be?!?!?
 

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Wow... I REALLY can't wait for 9.3 now. Night time mode and that are going to be awesome. The end of missing calls after no rings!! Third beta - hopefully it comes out soon.
 
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Y-E-S!!!! Have you tried it? How does it work?
It's only been a day but so far it's great. Calls and SMS work perfect. I haven't had time yet to test the handoff from Wi-Fi to LTE though. One thing I did observe is that it doesn't switch to Wi-Fi Calling until about 2 bars and then will switch back to LTE once it hits 4 bars.
 
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