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Wi-Fi Calling Now Available for AT&T Users

Danconia said:
Entirely too much misinformation in this thread. If you are not entirely sure about something, please don't dump it in a thread. Key important points are:

  • From AT&T website: If you use Wi-Fi Calling to make or receive domestic calls from the U.S., Puerto Rico, or U.S. Virgin Islands, there are no extra charges. Also, these calls don’t count against your voice plan usage limits. For international long distance calls, international rates from your current rate plan or international package apply.
  • I am a grandfathered unlimited data plan user and wifi calling works.
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Yes but what about if I'm abroad calling home or someone calls me? What happens if I use a home VPN?
 
I have a poor signal at home and it's working great here. I no longer have to hang my phone from the bedroom blinds. The downside is I can't use reception as an excuse to ignore calls from work.
 
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I get this AT&T want to 'help' out the customer to make 'cheaper' calls over their regular AT&T plan to 'save' money, something all mobile carriers are against ?

If the user chooses to do this via their data connection, that's separate, but why on earth would AT&T want 'their' standard calls to be 'cheaper' ? Isn't the whole point in mobile carriers making money, not loosing money ?

Wait and see, every man and his dog on AT&T will be on this, then the cost plummet will drive AT&T to do something..
 
On att vowifi turns on when I have one bar only on my iphone, around -108 - 110 db. After that it holds even if the signal is better. Smart vowifi 🙂
 
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I have a 6 plus with a iPhone 5 sim card in my company phone. I tried to enable wifi calling, but I get the error to call 800-331-0500. So I emailed my IT department to have them look into it, and the ATT rep for our company said it is not available on business plans yet. I am not buying that story, but don't know if I can do anything on my end.
 
I've been working on this for about six hours. It let me enable it this afternoon, but it still shows "AT&T" in the status bar even though it's toggled on. I've tried going into airplane mode, rebooting multiple times, resetting all settings twice, power cycling my router, and restoring to factory settings on my 6s. I've been on the phone with AT&T for about two hours and they can't figure it out. They said it shows it as active for my iPhone 6s and they have tried reactivating WiFi Calling a few times, but nothing is getting it show "AT&T WiFi" in the status bar.

Any ideas?
 
So I have a very weird issue that even AT&T technical support can't figure out. I have two 6S phone with wifi calling enabled on iOS 9.0.2. I also have a iPhone 5 and 5S that are on iOS 9.0.2. I can use one 6S to call the other 6S and they can hear me just fine. I can also call my Verizon iPhone 5C, any landline, other cell phones (including AT&T users) and be heard just fine. Now with that said, I can call my iPhone 5 and 5S but the receive can't hear my voice but I can hear them just fine, and then the call drops. Unfortunately this pattern is very consistent and frustrating. Has anyone else had this issue?
 
Europa13 said:
I've been working on this for about six hours. It let me enable it this afternoon, but it still shows "AT&T" in the status bar even though it's toggled on. I've tried going into airplane mode, rebooting multiple times, resetting all settings twice, power cycling my router, and restoring to factory settings on my 6s. I've been on the phone with AT&T for about two hours and they can't figure it out. They said it shows it as active for my iPhone 6s and they have tried reactivating WiFi Calling a few times, but nothing is getting it show "AT&T WiFi" in the status bar.

Any ideas?
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Same exact situation here. I was on a different WiFi network and it worked just fine.
Who's your ISP?
 
CadenZ15 said:
How does the call quality compare to cellular?
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Comparable or better as long you're using a decent WiFi network

Advil said:
for eligible plans only... does the unlimited data plan work with this? i'm scared to enable it and have it change something.
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It shouldn't change anything it's considered a FREE Add-on/optional feature not an actual plan
( Data Plan/Voice Plan )

ssl0408 said:
I could always make phone calls over WIFI, so why is this special?
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Clearly you've not been keeping up to date on these things...
 
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I can't turn on wifi calling.
Unlimited data plan iPhone 6s Plus.

Anyone know why I can't turn it on?
 
DLavyne said:
How do we know when it's activated? Is there a logo at the top of the screen that says WiFi like the old M-Cell logo? I activated twenty minutes ago and nothing...
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Yes your network banner will read
AT&T WiFi

cgatesman said:
It says it requires AT&T HD Voice which requires both the caller and receiver to have AT&T HD Voice. This means, you cannot use this feature to call outside of AT&T.
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chrisvanhorn said:
What a ****ing joke lol
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gotluck said:
is this for real? Then this really isnt wifi calling...
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Markoth said:
HD Voice is VoLTE. In theory, it should work. Doesn't mean it does though. 😀 At some point, it probably will.
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What they say is misleading have been making calls from my phone on WiFi Calling to dozens of non ATT , non HD Voice, Non VoLTE numbers just fine no issues
 
AutoUnion39 said:
Now I'm curious to see if AT&T will charge roaming if wifi calling is used overseas.

simple fix through a VPN though.
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I hope its that simple. Does anyone know if call continuity is up yet? Where I can make and receive calls on other idevices, even when the phone is on another network or off??
 
convergent said:
I've been using WiFi calling on T-Mobile for a while with a work phone, because their service is terrible at my house. Our family using AT&T and we have a Microcell for that. So just a couple of thoughts for you that think this may be a great thing.

First off, this is only for calls... not anything else. I was using an Android phone and wifi-calling doesn't help you with texts. They don't work consistently if you have a bad signal. With an iPhone and iMessage, this is less of an issue unless you are communicating with someone that doesn't have an iPhone by text... and wifi calling doesn't help.

Someone asked about what was new about this vs. other wifi calls, i.e. Skype. This wifi falling is essential treating wifi as a microcell, so its through the phone/carrier, not via an app. So you can just dial the phone as normal and if there is wifi available it will use that instead of your carrier's tower. This is why you have to configure your address so that it works for 911.

Someone mentioned it not working outside the US. I'm pretty sure that I used it in Europe on T-Mobile and it worked. Did you see somewhere that it doesn't work outside the US?
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Evidently T-Mo's implementation of wifi calling or perhaps the android phone you're using is different to ATT. On ATT wifi calling it does work for texts as well as phone calls. it works perfectly clearly and consistently even on slower 1mbs dsl connection and hands off flawlessly between the wifi calling and cell signal if you leave wifi range.
 
solodogg said:
Just wanted to give a warning to anyone not living in a VoLTE area. If you enable WiFi calling, and make a call while connected to 4G, when your signal drops to whatever level would normally activate WiFi calling, your phone call will go silent. Upon disconnecting the call, WiFi will immediately show in the status bar, and you will be able to place the call again.

I reported this bug during the Beta period to Apple, and it has persisted even on 9.0.2. WiFi calling is not supposed to attempt to activate once the call has already been established, but for some reason it tries to.
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I don't live in a VoLTE area and have never had this problem and i'm often on the phone when i arrive home and it switches from cell to wifi, nor have i ever had calls drop when i leave wifi range on the way away from home.
 
rigormortis said:
mavericks and later Yosemite and iOS 8 requires the iPhone to be on the same wifi network and powered on to place and receive calls and to send and receive regular text messages.

with yosemite and iOS 8 and watch os 1.01 , you could only answer a call on your watch if you were in range in bluetooth range of the paired phone.

t-mobile (and soon sprint), El Capitan and IOS 9 no longer requires the phone to on the same wifi network. it does not even require the phone to be on. and it does not even need the iPhone to be within range of any of your devices.

with yosemite, iOS 9, and watch os 2, your apple watch no longer needs to be in bluetooth range of your paired iPhone, it does not need your iPhone to be powered on. you are free to use it to make and receive calls. and you can receive and send texts, however, dictation does not work. this is what t-mobile offers that AT&T does not


hopefully , continuity including "calls on other devices" over cellular will come to AT&T as well
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I hope that call continuity does reach the shores of att soon.
 
Is wifi calling same as skype and other VOIP services?
If I make an international call while connected to wifi (with cellular data off and airplane mode), is it still charged as international call?
 
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