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Wifi Calling?

olofRense — Wed, 22 Mar 2023 22:30:17 GMT

Doing my research before joining.

I am using Rogers now, thinking to join here

I searched Help found VoLTE is here, but don't see words about Wifi Calling, Public Mobile has that too?

Re: Wifi Calling?

XionBunny — Wed, 22 Mar 2023 22:31:16 GMT

Wifi calling is not available on public mobile.

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hTideGnow — Wed, 22 Mar 2023 22:32:30 GMT

HI @olofRense

Sorry, no Wifi Calling here. PM just roll out VoLTE

Re: Wifi Calling?

olofRense — Wed, 22 Mar 2023 22:35:02 GMT

@XionBunny @hTideGnow ,

Thanks for the quick replies, but it will have it eventually? Sometime this year? or later?

Re: Wifi Calling?

dust2dust — Wed, 22 Mar 2023 22:35:50 GMT

No one here knows. I haven't seen any rumour of it either.

Re: Wifi Calling?

hTideGnow — Wed, 22 Mar 2023 22:36:07 GMT

HI @olofRense

Likely not. PM is a tier 3 provider and only provider bare minimum. I don't think we will have Wifi calling any time

Re: Wifi Calling?

will13am — Wed, 22 Mar 2023 22:36:37 GMT

@olofRense wrote:
@XionBunny @hTideGnow ,

Thanks for the quick replies, but it will have it eventually? Sometime this year? or later?

@olofRense , there has been no talk about bringing WiFi calling feature to this service so far. That is not to say it will never get it. It is just that the timing of such an upgrade is uncertain and should not be counted on.

Re: Wifi Calling?

XionBunny — Wed, 22 Mar 2023 22:36:41 GMT

Doubtful, volte was only just rolled out as a necessity, they don't offer premium features here or on any of the 3rd flanker brands, sadly it's fairly standard practice.

Re: Wifi Calling?

maximum_gato — Wed, 22 Mar 2023 22:41:00 GMT

@olofRense

Public Mobile does not have wifi calling. However if you had a telus phone that had wifi calling enabled on it by telus it may support wifi calling with pm but it's YMMV.

Re: Wifi Calling?

olofRense — Wed, 22 Mar 2023 22:43:28 GMT

Thanks all.

And what is the price for Roam Like Home?

Re: Wifi Calling?

XionBunny — Wed, 22 Mar 2023 22:44:05 GMT

i could see that happening in rare occurrence, but you'll likely get a "not available" message from the network if you force it on, which isn't recommended.

Re: Wifi Calling?

hTideGnow — Wed, 22 Mar 2023 22:44:54 GMT

Sorry @olofRense PM only has roaming for US , but they are sold as add-on for a block of 15 days. No daily rate like that

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maximum_gato — Wed, 22 Mar 2023 22:50:05 GMT

@olofRense

Public Mobile offers much better value US Roaming add ons than the average $15/dayrate offered by other providers. 15 day Unlimited US talk+text=$15 and Unlimited US talk+text+3gb of data=$30 and some stand alone data add ons. Points redemption for add ons are discounted between 25% and 50%.

Re: Wifi Calling?

BKNS27 — Thu, 23 Mar 2023 00:08:37 GMT

@olofRense

VoLTE will work if your phone has VoLTE option. Unfortunately my Samsung S8 doesn’t have this feature and wifi calling not available on PM.

Re: Wifi Calling?

K_GL — Thu, 23 Mar 2023 00:15:40 GMT

Do you know that we've been eagerly waiting for years and have just recently started offering volte services, and now you come along asking for the more advanced wificalling? I'm just kidding.lol

Re: Wifi Calling?

DennyCrane — Thu, 23 Mar 2023 00:23:07 GMT

I doubt we'll get wifi calling anytime soon, if ever. Public Mobile is a tier 3 provider who is part of Telus. It's no frills and low prices. If features such as WiFi calling are important to you you'll want to consider their tier 1 (Telus) or Tier 2 (Koodo) providers. Telus isn't going to give all the extra goodies to their budget brand, otherwise there'd be little incentive to upgrade to a Tier 1 or 2 provider at a higher rate.

As for roaming, we're limited to the US only. Beyond that there is no service. Having said that, Public Mobiles roaming prices in the US are significantly cheaper than Tier 1 and 2 providers.

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hTideGnow — Thu, 23 Mar 2023 00:21:48 GMT

I agree the overall price is cheaper per day, but some don't like the 15 days length. My brother went US last week for a short 2 days trip, decided to not pay the full 15 days for it

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DennyCrane — Thu, 23 Mar 2023 00:26:18 GMT

Yeah for 1 day trips i get that. But with Telus at $14/day, PM becomes a pretty good deal at days 2 and 3. And anything longer than that it becomes a really good deal, assuming you need service every day. The nice thing about easy roam / roam like home is you don't get charged for days you don't have usage.

But honestly, I remember paying $8/MB and $1.50/minute to roam, so today's rates are a bargain compared to 10 years ago.

Re: Wifi Calling?

DennyCrane — Thu, 23 Mar 2023 00:34:11 GMT

I agree it probably costs them nothing to enable it, but it's all about increasing ARPU, and they don't accomplish that by pushing everyone over to Tier 3. I don't necessarily equate wanting to make a profit with greed, but to each their own. At the end of the day PM is very good value to me, but it's not for everyone. My cell phone bills are about 1/3 of what they were 15 years ago, and there aren't too many of my goods and services i can say that about.

As for the US, it's not an apples to apples comparison as there are significantly greater levels of competition in this industry down south.

Re: Wifi Calling?

benfatto — Thu, 23 Mar 2023 00:51:45 GMT

@olofRense When would you need wifi calling when all plans but $15 have unlimited calling?