No VoLTE, probably. A bunch of early 4G phones drop back to 3G to make voice calls.
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FerdiMagellan@aus.social 1 month agoI have a 4G phone. #Optus has been telling me for months it will no longer work when they switch 3G off.
They won’t tell me why though.
zurohki@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
Taleya@aussie.zone 1 month ago
it aint LTE
FerdiMagellan@aus.social 1 month ago
@Taleya
How isn’t it?
Taleya@aussie.zone 1 month 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.
FerdiMagellan@aus.social 1 month ago
@Taleya
The Apple Store told me the telcos would be unlikely to upgrade 4g and would probably redeploy the 3G resources to 5G.
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.
FerdiMagellan@aus.social 1 month ago
@Taleya do you mean like for people in the country where all the calls drop to 3G, and in the city dead zones?