@eddieO wrote:
@Scott241 not having VoLTE should only effect you when you are making or receiving calls, and it should still work except that your service will drop to 3G but if you are not making calls your service should still be connecting to 4G/LTE, your Umidigi device should still work here in Canada. In the U.S. that is where you will experience issues as there is limited 2G coverage through T-Mobile only and even that will be gone apparently in the near future
Emphasis on a very generous "should"... there are areas in Canada where 3G bandwidth has been refarmed, or in some cases 3G was skipped entirely in favour of 4G hardware (predominantly in some areas of Atlantic Canada, I believe). One of my former referrals saw continuously dropping call quality on Telus 3G and then complete discontinuation of 3G service in their area over the past three or so years.
Public Mobile is a pure BYOD provider, the white list, consisting of mid range to high end devices, is discriminating against people on a tight budget. It's right in the face of the features that got a lot of us long term customers here in the first place. Over at Koodo they even make a cash-grab out of it, charging $5 extra if using the service with a, in their eyes, "incompatible" device that's not on the white list.
I know for a fact that the original Bison (Android 11) worked with VoLTE when PM first introduced it, but the feature got pulled a few months in. So all that "technical incompatibilities" is a lie. Just allow VoLTE on any phone that is capable, period. If you must, add a disclaimer at the relevant spots that you can't help with trouble shooting VoLTE on non Telus devices.
