Changes to bank web security

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.

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Andy Burns
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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

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charles

Why bother? buy a smart phone with wifi calling.

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The Natural Philosopher

All are nore expensive then a wifi enabled smartphone

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The Natural Philosopher

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

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The Natural Philosopher

Pretty sure is=ts on *all* i - phones .

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The Natural Philosopher

doesn't help with incoming calls

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charles

???

Of course it does!

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The Natural Philosopher

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".

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Chris Green

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.

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Andy Burns

*BUT* the providers won't sell you one if they don't feel like it.
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Chris Green

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.

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Chris Green

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.

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Swer

And you know this will continue after the 14th September?

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Andy Burns

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.

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Pamela

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.

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DJC

I got the santander notice this morning, it explicitly said use either their smarthone app or one time passcode via sms.

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Andy Burns

how does the system know where you are?

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charles

No its not because you don't do internet banking.

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Swer

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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Swer

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