I'm on virgin (an EE MVNO) and when I visit customer sites that have poor coverage and EE signal boxes my phone uses their femtocells ... you hear a extra beep at the start of the call to let you know.
Some can, but you tend to need to buy the phone from the network to get a "blessed" version of firmware with wifi calling provisioned on it.
Suresignal is the Vodaphone one. I've had one for many years. Our house is built with very hard bricks so mobile phone signals don't easily come. indoors. Leaning out of an upstairs window does get a signal
Why bother? buy a smart phone with wifi calling.
All are nore expensive then a wifi enabled smartphone
All i phones. most later samsungs and quite a few others have wifi calling.
EE/BT, vodaphone and three support it.. but only 3 on a PAYG basis. You will probably need top buy the samsung from the company whose SIM you use
Pretty sure is=ts on *all* i - phones .
doesn't help with incoming calls
???
Of course it does!
I asked 3 for one and they wouldn't let me have it, they just promoted their "use WiFi when there's no mobile coverage" app, which has since been discontinued and didn't work anyway.
I don't think you can "purchase" a "home signal".
The phone creates an IPSEC tunnel back to the home network, then does everything through that which it would normally do over the radio interface.
*BUT* the providers won't sell you one if they don't feel like it.
In fact I just looked, the Three web site says:-
Home Signal
Update: Three no longer issue home signal boxes
It's the perfect solution but, for some reason, the mobile providers won't actually supply them.
That?s not true of purchases in shops using apple pay, google pay or samsung pay. They all work fine with no mobile phone signal at the time of paying.
And you know this will continue after the 14th September?
One of my banks uses a card reader to generate a one-time code but another bank uses a standalone device like a mini-calculator which generates a one-time code without needing a bank card.
Santander (for one) were misleading about this, they said you need to install their app but on looking at the detail it wasn't necessary as they continue to offer the option of sending a code via SMS to a phone
Probably.
I got the santander notice this morning, it explicitly said use either their smarthone app or one time passcode via sms.
how does the system know where you are?
No its not because you don't do internet banking.
More fool you.
But using the phone to do a *pay transaction instead of using the physical card is vastly more secure.
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