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Maybe I’m dumb but didn’t understand how what you said about 112 calls helps incentivize carriers

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• daveoc64 2y ago
  Band 20 LTE/800MHz allows the carriers to vastly increase their coverage area for a lot less money. Customers can only access that spectrum if they have a VoLTE compatible (including emergency call) device. The carriers have legally binding landmass and population coverage goals as part of the spectrum licensing terms. The carriers can also market the fact that better rural coverage is available on newer devices. Therefore the carriers have only been selling fully VoLTE compatible devices for many years and pushing as many VoLTE-enabling software updates out as possible.
  • dingaling 2y ago
    > Therefore the carriers have only been selling fully VoLTE compatible devices for many years However 35% of UKians bring their own phone under SIM-only contracts. When my UK carrier ( Hutchinson 3 ) was switching off 3G I had weekly scare-emails stating that my phone would no longer work. Of course it did support VoLTE and works fine, but in the background they were using a whitelist.
    • wkat4242 2y ago
      How did that end? Did they block you? I have nothing but bad experience with these idiots anyway. Their support were real script monkeys. They were the worst provider in Ireland.