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Cannot Make Calls in US

Allan_B
Great Neighbour / Super Voisin

New activation. US-Canada 50Gb/5g subscription. Now in US. Data and text work fine. Not able to make calls. Immediately hangs up. What is wrong?

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RavingRaven
Model Citizen / Citoyen Modèle

@Allan_B 

If the issue is VOLTE not being enabled on your device for any of the reasons mentioned above then the workaround for voice calls for areas not serviced by T-Mobile's soon to be retired 2G network would be to download a voip provider app such as textnow and choose a Canadian phone # to be able to make voice calls using the 4G LTE network (mobile data).

If needed call your own phone # and after voicemail picks up press * and enter your voicemail PIN# to access your messages and/or change your greeting to include your voip phone #.

Call forwarding your Public Mobile phone # when "unreachable" to your voip # may or may not be possible in the US or in Canada (not sure what call forwarding options are for VOLTE enabled vs non-enabled customers since VOLTE was introduced by Public Mobile.)

Maybe @Nezgar can clarify the above statement?

BKNS27
Mayor / Maire

@Allan_B 

In your settings, manually connect to T-Mobile or AT&T network. Also enable VoLTE.

Handy1
Mayor / Maire

@Allan_B  Set phone to 4G/LTE not 5G and try T mobile AT&T or Verizon . Also what phone you have ? If it’s not on the PM voLTE whitelist you most likely  won’t be able to make phone calls 

VoLTE white list

https://www.publicmobile.ca/en/on/get-help/articles/volte

hi @Allan_B add to @Yummy post, PM's partner are T-Mobile, At&T and Verizon 

But if it is a VoLTE problem, you need to use only T-Mobile with 2G network mode 

hairbag1
Mayor / Maire

@Allan_B 

is your current cellphone on this volte whitelist ?

https://www.publicmobile.ca/en/bc/get-help/articles/volte

hTideGnow
Mayor / Maire

hi @Allan_B what phone do you have?

it might be a problem with VoLTE if your phone is not on PM's whitelist 

try connect to only T-Mobile and see wt network mode to 2G and see if it works 

if not, you might need to make calls using some VoIP app like TextNow as a workaround 

Yummy
Mayor / Maire

Did you try to manually connect to PM partners?  AT&T and T-mobile ?

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