Phone icon significance

[Peter Johnson]

Anyone know the significance of the phone icon (circled) on this
screen grab
https://1drv.ms/u/s!AkhvgPvXD0_1ots7y7gP0MzD6o0V8w?e=ltPgAN?
It's not displayed all the time. Usually it shows VoILTE1 or 4G. (It
is a 5G phone but 5G is not yet enabled in this area.
Thanks

[Andy Burns]

WiFi calling

[notya...@gmail.com]

Indeed.

Whilst Voip over my mobile is usually better the the mobile itself and almost invariably better than PSTN, Wi-Fi calling quality on O2 is dire, and it is basically their implementation of Voip.

It is so bad I switch it off unless in large steal frame buildings with Wi-Fi and no mobile signal.

Can't cope with SMS either, although the signal threshold for that is lower.

[Andy Burns]

Mark Clayton wrote:

> Andy Burns wrote:
>
>> Peter Johnson wrote:
>>
>>> Anyone know the significance of the phone icon
>>

>> WiFi calling
>
> Indeed.

> Wi-Fi calling quality on O2 is dire

I've never had the pleasure, though my last two phones have been wifi-calling
capable, the MVNOs (apart from iD) seem very sniffy about provisioning it on
phones they didn't supply with their own butchered firmware.

[Peter Johnson]

On Wed, 20 Oct 2021 15:49:50 +0100, Andy Burns <use...@andyburns.uk>
wrote:

I wasn't using the phone when it showed and I haven't seen it for a
few days. Not had aby issues using VoILTE1.

[notya...@gmail.com]

True - and the MNO's - for Samsung you had to buy unlocked SIM free from Samsung themselves.

[notya...@gmail.com]

Tends to happens if you go in a large steel framed building - like an office block.

Somewhere on the settings on mine there is a enable Wi-Fi calling, but more recently a "prefer Wi-Fi calling" option has appeared - on O2 switch the latter off.