[AusNOG] wifi phone calls

[Scott Wilson]

Telstra are trialling voice over LTE with their "4GX" (700mhz LTE-A)
product.

On 17 February 2015 at 09:06, Scott Howard <scott at doc.net.au> wrote:

> Mobile networks have ranges measured in up to (10's of) kilometres.  Wifi
> networks have ranges measured in hundreds of metres - presuming these's
> nothing too solid to block them.
>
> Providers like Republic Wifi work well simply because the majority of the
> time most people are around good wifi signals, but they still need to fill
> the holes of coverage - which basically starts the moment you walk out of
> the front door.  I have multiple friends that use Republic and couldn't be
> happier - they generally say that the quality isn't quite as good as
> standard mobile, but for the price they are happy.  (FreedomPop is a
> different story, and not a company I'd recommend going near)
>
> However as far as "VOIP" for mobile call, that's happening.  In the US,
> Verizon has been doing Voice-over-LTE (VoLTE) for some time, and others
> will likely follow.  For Verizon this is a big win as it allows devices on
> their CDMA network to handle "voice" and data simultaneously (as it's all
> data) - something they haven't been able to do before now.  The LTE spec
> fully supports voice-over-data, and it's expected all carriers will move to
> it eventually.
>
>  Scott
>
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 2:45 PM, Alex Samad - Yieldbroker <
> Alex.Samad at yieldbroker.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> So I saw this whilst I was reading Slashdot.
>>
>>
>> http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/15/02/16/1627240/cellphone-start-ups-handle-calls-with-wi-fi
>>
>>
>> This got me thinking, if you took money out of the equation and politics
>> (sic).  Would it be better for use to have a completely wifi wireless
>> network, get rid of the mix of technology and just have devices that do
>> some sort of VOIP.  I am presuming running an IP network is better than a
>> GSM/3g/4g.
>>
>> How much better would that be ?
>>
>> A
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