Wi-Fi calling

[Luis Ortega]

I have an iPhone 14 Pro and use O2 as my mobile provider in the UK.
When I call banks or social security in the US, the calls often cut out or break up from weak connection and I have to keep trying.
Where we are, I usually get one bar on the phone.
I can use FaceTime or WhatsApp with my friends and family in the US, but banks and such don’t accept those connections.
We have good home WiFi so I was wondering if I could use that to phone from the UK to the US if I turned on wifi calling on my phone, or is that feature restricted in some way for overseas calls.

 

[casperes1996]

Unless your WiFi is metered I would advice always having WiFi calling enabled.

It requires support from the telecom infrastructure but your call will fallback to regular cell towers if the calling telex’s network doesn’t support it.
It just adds an extra pathway to communicate with the operator which can increase quality and reliability

 

[FreakinEurekan]

Any metering/restriction would be from O2, not Apple.

Generally speaking I’d use WiFi calling whenever it’s available. I don’t use O2 so check with them on charges, but I’d be surprised if there are any.

 

[decafjava]

Wifi calling is great, as the posters above wrote there are good reasons to have it on whenever available.

 

[Luis Ortega]

Any metering/restriction would be from O2, not Apple.

Generally speaking I’d use WiFi calling whenever it’s available. I don’t use O2 so check with them on charges, but I’d be surprised if there are any.

So the metering restrictions wouldn’t come from virgin? That’s my internet provider.

 

[FreakinEurekan]

So the metering restrictions wouldn’t come from virgin? That’s my internet provider.

Unlikely. The only issue you might have with Virgin is if they're BLOCKING it, and Wifi calling just wouldn't work.

No cost issues from Virgin, at any rate. It'll either work or it won't.

 

[casperes1996]

So the metering restrictions wouldn’t come from virgin? That’s my internet provider.

Unlikely. The only issue you might have with Virgin is if they're BLOCKING it, and Wifi calling just wouldn't work.

No cost issues from Virgin, at any rate. It'll either work or it won't.

If you pay your ISP by used bytes then you may still incur extra usage fees this way. The internet is used for the communication after all. But if your internet plan is standard unlimited use, then no problems