ATT Wifi Calling Abroad
Oct 29, 2015, 2:45 pm
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ATT Wifi Calling Abroad
I'm just posting my experience here. I'm in downtown Toronto at the Hilton. It is an ATT WiFi hotspot and my iPhone 6 automatically registers on it. My WiFi calling does not work. VOIP on it works great so ATT has obviously made the decision to strictly limit its WiFi calling to the US.
Canada is part of my calling area so I don't have to think about VOIP, but I thought I would share my experience.
Canada is part of my calling area so I don't have to think about VOIP, but I thought I would share my experience.
Oct 29, 2015, 7:26 pm
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Correct. They were very clear about this when they announced WiFi calling, and I'm fairly sure it was one of the conditions of (or at least stated in) the exception they got that allowed them to start Wifi calling.
Oct 29, 2015, 7:47 pm
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I really doubt that. Why would it concern the FCC that you could make wifi calls from outside the US? I think it's a simple money grab for AT&T to force people to purchase int'l roaming packages.
Oct 30, 2015, 10:52 am
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The beatuy of a capitalistic, market driven economy is that you always have the right to... wait for it... vote with your wallet!
Clearly, T-Mobile offers this feature, if that is meaningful to people they always have the option to switch carriers.
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Oct 30, 2015, 11:02 am
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Oct 30, 2015, 11:37 am
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My original offer stands; if people don't like the deal they are getting, go find one to your liking. That is one of the beautiful things about a free market.
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Oct 30, 2015, 12:49 pm
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Anyone one else had issues with the Wifi calling? I get a marginal ATT signal in my office (-106 to -111dBm). Even with that RSSI, I only dropped calls in one place in the house. Wifi calling works, but it seems to drop calls a lot if I move around. It seems as if the handoff back to the ATT network and vice-versa doesn't work well.
Not sure this is related, but when on ATT over Wifi and using my BT headset I can't seem to properly transfer calls to the handset or vice-versa. They seem to get stuck in pergatory. I didn't have this issue before I enabled Wifi calling.
Not sure this is related, but when on ATT over Wifi and using my BT headset I can't seem to properly transfer calls to the handset or vice-versa. They seem to get stuck in pergatory. I didn't have this issue before I enabled Wifi calling.
Nov 7, 2015, 4:15 am
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ATT Wifi Calling Abroad
I'm in Turks and Caicos right now and was able to place a call without using my vpn on wifi calling.
Edit: well that was wierd. After initially having the att wifi signal it has now disappeared and I'm no longer able to make calls. I can't seem to make it come up using my Vpn either.
Fdw
Edit: well that was wierd. After initially having the att wifi signal it has now disappeared and I'm no longer able to make calls. I can't seem to make it come up using my Vpn either.
Fdw
Last edited by FlyingDoctorwu; Nov 7, 2015 at 4:23 am
Nov 9, 2015, 10:30 am
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Having had a microcell for years and trying wifi calling in home, the wifi calling SOUND is a bit better than the microcell, but the one downside to wifi calling that one will experience anywhere is going to be bandwidth at the router (not necessarily the WAN connection). Without a good QoS implementation at the router high bandwidth usage by other devices can impact of course the wifi calling quality. I've experience this as work locations, starbucks and at home where the bandwidth is crazy and the router is very powerful.
For the moment, I'm going back to the microcell till I can get a better handle on the QoS preference for the wifi calling protocol and see if I can prioritize it accordingly.
Mar 1, 2016, 1:02 am
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Currently abroad. Can't get att wifi calling to work with a VPN at all. Sigh. Great wifi signal too. 88 Mbps down, 25 up...
Edit: oops. Looks like somehow wifi calling had gotten turned off. Probably because of my sim switching over the trip. It's currently working fine. I connected it over my VPN but my VPN connection has dropped and it's still showing working.
Fdw
Edit: oops. Looks like somehow wifi calling had gotten turned off. Probably because of my sim switching over the trip. It's currently working fine. I connected it over my VPN but my VPN connection has dropped and it's still showing working.
Fdw
Last edited by FlyingDoctorwu; Mar 1, 2016 at 3:05 am