topic Re: Wifi calling in Get Support

Wifi calling

Friendly_joe — Wed, 16 Aug 2023 17:24:54 GMT

I have heard rumors that Telus is starting to favor PM over Koodo. Any chance we might see wifi calling make it's way here?

Re: Wifi calling

Handy1 — Wed, 16 Aug 2023 17:33:55 GMT

@Friendly_joe No word of it coming here anytime soon if ever . But for Telus favouring PM over Koodo I believed that when PM first put out 5G plans , and now Koodo has 5G plans and wifi calling so it’s a tie for me but I still like PM over Koodo all day long

Re: Wifi calling

JRod — Wed, 16 Aug 2023 17:33:20 GMT

It might make its way here eventually but I don’t think anybody here in the community knows of a timeline of that happening.

Re: Wifi calling

Meow — Wed, 16 Aug 2023 17:37:17 GMT

You know as much as we do since we are all PM customers here, no management with inside knowledge.

Re: Wifi calling

DennyCrane — Wed, 16 Aug 2023 17:47:59 GMT

No word of wifi calling coming anytime soon. It is definitely a more premium service, though PM does appear to be going through a bit of a brand shift, so who knows. I agree that PM seems to be getting more love than Koodo these days.

Re: Wifi calling

dust2dust — Wed, 16 Aug 2023 18:06:04 GMT

I don't buy the tier 3 or premium service idea. I have a US service that has volte and vowifi and the plan I chose costs an average of $2.50US per 30 days. VoWiFi is basically a voip concept (but not over cell data) but it uses your proper phone number and adds a little icon to the dialer.
I might even give the US TextNow sim service a go when I'm there next time.

Re: Wifi calling

DennyCrane — Wed, 16 Aug 2023 18:09:05 GMT

@dust2dust Yes, we've been on this merry go round before. I understand your perspective on that, and maybe eventually we'll get to that point. For now I think we can all acknowledge that the US is a much larger market with much more competition in this industry.

Re: Wifi calling

Friendly_joe — Wed, 16 Aug 2023 19:35:49 GMT

Thanks for all chiming in. I'll be heading out of the countryside pretty soon. Won't be as relevent then. Currently it's a bit annoying I must say.

Re: Wifi calling

DennyCrane — Tue, 22 Aug 2023 04:37:03 GMT

I just saw PM respond to this inquiry on FB on one of their ads. Confirmation there's no pipeline for it at this time.