MTN Allowing WiFi Calling

Kadz said:
Samsung Note 8. Nope... Just switch on the wifi calling option

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So strange. I have it activated on my S9 (prepaid) but not seeing anything my side. Phoned customer care and went through 8 agents and everyone has a different story. Some say it is only for contract customers yet my colleauge is on contract also with the S9 and it's also not working. S9 seems to be supported though according to them and if Note 8 is can't see why S9 won't be. Just out of interest are you on contract or prepaid?
 
Tector said:
So strange. I have it activated on my S9 (prepaid) but not seeing anything my side. Phoned customer care and went through 8 agents and everyone has a different story. Some say it is only for contract customers yet my colleauge is on contract also with the S9 and it's also not working. S9 seems to be supported though according to them and if Note 8 is can't see why S9 won't be. Just out of interest are you on contract or prepaid?
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I am on prepaid myself. So that's definitely not the issue
 
Tector said:
Haha seems either my moaning and pleading worked or it is pure coincidence but my VoWiFi is now active at home on my Galaxy S9. MTN PrepaidView attachment 874779
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This is what I'm trying to figure out! There has been no mention about this on myBB, I can't find any other article on it?

@Bradley Prior have you and your team heard anything about this? Or did I miss an article somewhere?
 
Hi Guys is anyone winning with this on an iPhone? It’s up and running properly on an S10 but no dice on the iPhone. Funny thing is when I check on an iPad with an MTN sim it’s showing Carrier Update 41.7.1 however on the iPhone it’s showing as MTN 41.0.

iPad cannot make calls so obviously cannot check if that’s the differentiating factor. Maybe I have to wait for that new carrier update to hit the iPhone before WiFi Calling comes alive. Samsung required no calling or any setup whatsoever just appeared immediately after I hit the WiFi Calling toggle which was there for some time but didn’t work prior to these last few days so had it turned off.
 
Segg said:
This is what I'm trying to figure out! There has been no mention about this on myBB, I can't find any other article on it?

@Bradley Prior have you and your team heard anything about this? Or did I miss an article somewhere?
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Haha don’t jinx it just now you go looking for official confirmation and they end up turning it off saying it’s currently for testing purposes only. Lol if I’m correct MTN or someone else had the out of data bundle lock available in their USSD menu then disabled it later when it became widespread knowledge. This was prior to it becoming regulation lol
 
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Okay... So ever since the latest update to my phone (A70) Wi-Fi calling is available under the settings menu, but I can no longer make Wi-Fi calls, only VoLTE :unsure:

Anyone else?
 
is there a way to test if this is working?

also does it mean that if my network on the phone is dead, but my home wifi is 100%; that i will be able to make and receive calls?
 
What I find strange when it comes to how phones handle signal and especially VoWiFi is that the phone will only switch to a potentially better VoWiFi setting if you pretty much loses signal all together. Same for switching to 3G. I would say if your bars drop to 2 on 4G then the phone should switch to 3G and VoWifi, but on my phone it seems it waits for signal to first dissapear completely before it will do that. You guys find the same thing? What do you think?
 
Ockie said:
What I find strange when it comes to how phones handle signal and especially VoWiFi is that the phone will only switch to a potentially better VoWiFi setting if you pretty much loses signal all together. Same for switching to 3G. I would say if your bars drop to 2 on 4G then the phone should switch to 3G and VoWifi, but on my phone it seems it waits for signal to first dissapear completely before it will do that. You guys find the same thing? What do you think?
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Vodacom or MTN?
 
Ockie said:
Oh damn, see this is MTN. Thought it was just a Vowifi thread in general. I am on Vodacom. But I think it is more a phone thing than a operator thing under which circumstances the switch over happens surely, regardless of the operator.
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Its both in a way..

Huawei has a WiFi or LTE preferred setting (for vowifi) while Samsung doesn't. Don't know about Sony, LG or IPhone.

All networks except vodacom have a WiFi preferred default while Vodacom is signal based.
 
Sayf777 said:
Its both in a way..

Huawei has a WiFi or LTE preferred setting (for vowifi) while Samsung doesn't. Don't know about Sony, LG or IPhone.

All networks except vodacom have a WiFi preferred default while Vodacom is signal based.
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I wonder why. I would think that it would be beneficial to offload voice traffic wherever VoWiFi is available for networks. Wonder why Vodacom does not do this and ask Samsung to implement VoWiFi as being always preferred if available. On my Vodacom Samsung even though the LTE signal was so bad I would have no bars, but would still cling to it and so Volte and phone would ring, but never would it just switch to VoWifi. Only if I put airplane mode on and then enable WiFi again would it then start using VoWiFi.

Strange.
 
Ockie said:
I wonder why. I would think that it would be beneficial to offload voice traffic wherever VoWiFi is available for networks. Wonder why Vodacom does not do this and ask Samsung to implement VoWiFi as being always preferred if available. On my Vodacom Samsung even though the LTE signal was so bad I would have no bars, but would still cling to it and so Volte and phone would ring, but never would it just switch to VoWifi. Only if I put airplane mode on and then enable WiFi again would it then start using VoWiFi.

Strange.
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And if someone doesn't want WiFi calling they can just off it completely.
 
Ockie said:
I wonder why. I would think that it would be beneficial to offload voice traffic wherever VoWiFi is available for networks. Wonder why Vodacom does not do this and ask Samsung to implement VoWiFi as being always preferred if available. On my Vodacom Samsung even though the LTE signal was so bad I would have no bars, but would still cling to it and so Volte and phone would ring, but never would it just switch to VoWifi. Only if I put airplane mode on and then enable WiFi again would it then start using VoWiFi.

Strange.
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And they don't need to ask Samsung, they can just make it their network default when connecting to a WiFi signal like all other networks.
 
Sayf777 said:
And they don't need to ask Samsung, they can just make it their network default when connecting to a WiFi signal like all other networks.
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Wow does that work. How would Vodacom know you have a good WiFi connection and move you into vowifi. My thinking is that it is controlled by the phone firmware. It will know you have a active WiFi connection and default you into vowifi even if you have strong lte for Volte.
 
Ockie said:
Wow does that work. How would Vodacom know you have a good WiFi connection and move you into vowifi. My thinking is that it is controlled by the phone firmware. It will know you have a active WiFi connection and default you into vowifi even if you have strong lte for Volte.
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Yes, its network dependent.

On the vodacom support forum during the trialing phase there was a lot complaints hence the change (IIRC, I may be completely wrong but I do remember reading it somewhere).

But Samsung does have a notification that does say a weak WiFi network will cause dropped calls (when WiFi calling is active).

Since I work in a factory and WiFi calling is my only option, Vodacom is last on my list because of their default since as you say it likes to stick to LTE even with very bad signal and the handover to vowifi is not seamless.
 
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