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Ok, but why block VoWiFi?
by cortesoft 1y ago
Ok, but why block VoWiFi?
- tsimionescu 1y agoThat still uses their infrastructure at some point, as you are still using your carrier's phone number when you make a VoWiFi call.
- notpushkin 1y agoYeah, but what’s the problem they’re trying to avoid? Bad SIP implementation not working with their servers? Just text the user: “Hey, you’re using an unsupported VoWiFi stack, if it breaks – that’s on you.”
- numpad0 1y ago"That's on you" is not something that works at cellular scale. You're going to end up fighting some mafia scheme microcosm forming around that little thing.
- tsimionescu 1y agoI don't know, and I haven't seen any explanation either, malicious or otherwise.
- mananaysiempre 1y agoFrom what (little) I understand, VoLTE and VoWiFi are quite similar under the hood—VoLTE is more or less SIP, and VoWiFi is that same SIP over IPsec. You see how this would be an interoperability nightmare (not that I’m excusing the telecom people for getting us into this mess). Furthermore, some carriers get testy about you avoiding roaming charges by using VoWiFi (while others actually encourage it).