• @Taleya@aussie.zone
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    23 months ago

    Ask your manufacturer.

    Basically: if your phone is “4g” but you get told it’s gonna get cut off when they tank the 3g network, then that most likely means the phone doesn’t support Voice Over Long Term Evolution (volte) … it uses 3g for calls.

    • Ferdi Magellan
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      13 months ago

      @Taleya do you mean like for people in the country where all the calls drop to 3G, and in the city dead zones?

    • Ferdi Magellan
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      3 months ago

      @Taleya
      The Apple Store told me the telcos would be unlikely to upgrade 4g and would probably redeploy the 3G resources to 5G.

      My phone does support VoLTE but the Optus infrastructure is crap. It used to drop to 3G calls but no longer. Now it just drops out completely.

      I guess it doesn’t matter now because the telcos have realised half of rural Australia would be left with no service and that would be very bad.