From Newsgroup: comp.mobile.android

On 30/07/2025 19:21, NY wrote:

On 27/07/2025 18:58, Carlos E.R. wrote:

On 2025-07-27 16:39, Jörg Lorenz wrote:

On 27.07.25 10:29, Andy Burns wrote:

Alternatively I can disable wifi-calling altogether, of course.

You would be losing comfort and stability in a big way. I use the
function for over 10 years now and I'm more than happy.

I have never used it and never missed it. My mobile phones work
perfectly inside my home.

Then you are lucky. Vodafone's coverage map predicts good signal even indoors for our house, but it has been lousy since 3G stopped a few
years ago. And that's even for voice calls and not for the more
demanding mobile internet.

And that's from a mast which is about 1/4 mile away on a hill that gives
clear line of sight to the house - assuming that is the mast that
Vodafone use. Certainly there have been cases when most of our village
has experienced loss of mobile phone (as reported on out village's
Facebook group) which tends to point to a single point of failure (that
mast) for Vodafone, EE, Orange etc.
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On 27/07/2025 22:02, Jörg Lorenz wrote:

On 27.07.25 17:28, AJL wrote:

On 7/27/25 7:37 AM, Jörg Lorenz wrote:

On 27.07.25 10:25, Andy Burns wrote:

Jörg Lorenz wrote:

   it is clever to leave the choice
to the phone based on technical criterias.

I don't have an option "no preference",
just "prefer wifi" or "prefer mobile".

"Prefer Wifi" is/seems to be default. My Pixel 7 is still set to the
default value.

Likewise my Samsung Galaxy S10+. Years ago I walked around outside my
house
  to see where WiFi calling switched to a tower. I got all my yard
plus about
  30 ft down the street. I'm not sure if that meant I had a good WiFi
or a
  poor or busy tower. It didn't prove anything but was an interesting
test.
  Bottom line: I got rid of my landline years ago and never noticed a
  difference...

Very much the same here. I keep my landline just because it is part of
the triple play package we have consisting of 1 Gbit-internet symmetric, IP-TV and IP-telephony. The landline-telephony is a goody because we
need the fiber-mainline for internet and TV anyway. Domestic calls are
free.

Our kids (30-45) do not use the landline-telephony anymore.

I still use the landline for phone calls, mainly because up to now
(until I started using wifi calling) I couldn't rely on the mobile a)
ringing on incoming calls; b) finding a signal when I want to make an
outgoing call; c) giving sufficiently good call quality that I can have
an intelligible conversation without dropouts on the important words in
a sentence.

And a landline is essential for the internet connection (FTTC, then VDSL
to the house). One day we may get offered FTTP, or even get forced to
have FTTP if BT OpenReach remove copper wiring to our house.

It's had to remember the days of ADSL and copper all the way to the
exchange which may be a few miles away - the days when 8 Mbps down and
0.5 Mbps up was regarded as "very fast". Nowadays we get about 30 down
and 8 up, and we'd probably get slightly more if I moved the router
closer to the master socket (which would mean routing at least one Cat 5 Ethernet cable to the living room (*) which is a good central point for
the parent node of our mesh network and gives faster Ethernet for my
study and for the TV than wifi gives).

(*) Sod's law comes into effect: the route between the master socket and
the living room crosses a hardwood floor, so there is no edge of a
carpet to tuck a cable into nor metal strips in doorways to allow a
cable under. So we use the phone wiring that was already installed in
conduits within the walls to get VDSL to the router, rather than trying
to route Cat 5 from a remote router to the point where we need Ethernet.
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On 2025-07-30 20:21, NY wrote:

On 27/07/2025 18:58, Carlos E.R. wrote:

On 2025-07-27 16:39, Jörg Lorenz wrote:

On 27.07.25 10:29, Andy Burns wrote:

Alternatively I can disable wifi-calling altogether, of course.

You would be losing comfort and stability in a big way. I use the
function for over 10 years now and I'm more than happy.

I have never used it and never missed it. My mobile phones work
perfectly inside my home.

Then you are lucky. Vodafone's coverage map predicts good signal even indoors for our house, but it has been lousy since 3G stopped a few
years ago. And that's even for voice calls and not for the more
demanding mobile internet.

I've noticed that incoming calls often don't ring the phone, but
Vodafone's voicemail does a few minutes later if the caller has left a message. And it's not that my phone's ringer volume is too low to hear because the ringer for Voicemail is loud enough to hear. And I've not
done anything fancy like different ring tones for different callers in
my phone's address book.

As a matter of interest, is WiFi calling (where the phone uses its wifi signal to contact the router and hence the internet) regarded as better
or worse than a picocell (which transmits a mobile signal from an
Ethernet connection to the router and hence the internet)? Two different solutions, provided by different mobile phone carriers.

It is cheaper for the provider. And possibly for you, if they charge for
the installation of the picocell. In any case, it is less hardware.
--
Cheers, Carlos.
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