[AusNOG] wifi phone calls

[Alex Samad - Yieldbroker]

https://republicwireless.com/info/plans/

looks interesting, which 4g provider do they use ?


I guess the real driving question I was asking was not weather 4g/3g is better than wifi, but more does the voice network disappear into a data network carrying voice.
A


From: AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Ross Annetts
Sent: Tuesday, 17 February 2015 10:20 AM
To: ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] wifi phone calls

LTE (4G) is already all IP and as already mentioned is better suited for long distances as it handles diffraction, reflection and refraction of signals better than all 802.11 technologies at the moment. The main benefit of using Wifi as a supplement to Mobile networking is due to the limited sprectrum and ever growing devices and needs of users for bandwidth.

Regards,
Ross

On 17/02/2015 10:08 am, Scott Wilson wrote:
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<mailto: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<mailto: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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