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MTN Allowing WiFi Calling
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Tim_vb
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When your wifi reception is decent the MNO routes the call to your phone using your phone wifi IP address. This way you can still receive calls overseas or in areas with bad reception (very useful in loadshedding when towers are down)what is "wifi calling"-Grade1 level answer please
MTN seems to have done half the job then lost interest in this project.
Someone needs to wake up their Marketing Team
All SA networks really need to get onboard with Wifi Calling.
Cell reception is terrible in my area.
My phone has to be on 2g to receive calls on Vodacom.
I can't receive a clear call on MTN even on 2g.
Wifi Calling seems to be active on MTN in my area.
I will give it a shot & update.
Samsung A22 Dual Sim
Cell reception is terrible in my area.
My phone has to be on 2g to receive calls on Vodacom.
I can't receive a clear call on MTN even on 2g.
Wifi Calling seems to be active on MTN in my area.
I will give it a shot & update.
Samsung A22 Dual Sim
Tim_vb
Expert Member
MTN's network in general is great. But when load shedding hits again WiFi calling would help a ton when half their towers are down. By not enabling WiFi calling they just accelerate the move toward in app calls
I don't think they're going to do it because it will eat into their profit for roaming calls. A lot of people travel with their MTN phones and they would rather you spend R25 per minute than a normal voice call because your phone is on Wi-Fi. They also push that R5 per minute roaming special thing too - again probably far more more money they'll make than if they let your phone connect to a Wi-Fi network outside the country and route calls like its local.
Would be easy for them to enable wifi calling only while in the country, my UK three sim does that
Tim_vb
Expert Member
roaming ripoffs are due to badly negotiated bilateral agreements in the absence of a strong regulator like the EU. You can't assume the home carrier is earning extraordinary profits and it more likely the roaming carrier is charging extraordinary rates because they can and they don't have to deal with the customer relations blowback
Yes.. I can actually make clear calls with WiFi calling on MTN now.Any update?
I definitely recommend WiFi calling if it's available in your area.
Sometimes I have to restart my phone to make it work though. I'm not sure if it's phone or network related.
Wifi calling isn't area dependant.
It's phone and ISP dependant
I wonder why it would be set up to be isp dependent, how would that work overseas unless that's precisely their aim for it to not work overseas?
Like for vodacom, telkom and cell c it seems to work for most if not all isps while for mtn it won't work on some.
Yeah it doesn't make sense.
But that is how it is.
Until the product is properly released we won't know what it's targeted at.
Even vodacoms product only works when you don't have signal so they don't allow it to work all the time.
I wonder how MTN will control this gem:
I mean they can’t launch a proper Wi-Fi calling service at all they’re so incompetent but it seems they will enforce some kind of geo ip based block?
In case you try to make a call while roaming and they can’t rob you blind in roaming fees.
I mean they can’t launch a proper Wi-Fi calling service at all they’re so incompetent but it seems they will enforce some kind of geo ip based block?
In case you try to make a call while roaming and they can’t rob you blind in roaming fees.
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This is ridiculous. Do the other networks allow this? MTN still don't have wifi calling enabled on iOS.