Wi-Fi Calling

ashmun52

When is giffgaff likely to start providing wifi calling feature. It would be useful even though I am on a monthly plan.

jfc1951

ashmun52 When is giffgaff likely to start providing wifi calling feature. It would be useful even though I am on a monthly plan.

Sorry, we don't know. We are members/customers, like you.

blade50007

ashmun52 hi there
no news on the horizon about this. who knows if and when giffgaff will support WiFi calling

endorphin

ashmun52 jfc1951 blade50007 Steve McDonald, giffgaff's CTO, had this to say:

"Don’t hold me to it, but maybe 2020 could be the year. Potentially for both (VoLTE and VoWiFi), but there are a lot of things that need to happen before we can say for definite. "

paraphrased from the transcript here

richybhoy36

ashmun52 Hi theres never been any discussion about it on giffgaff !

dartgirl

ashmun52 🤔

ukrun

ashmun52 We are members like your self. giffgaff will let us know in announcement section once it is implemented.

bullphit

ashmun52 doubtful

georgecooksey24

ashmun52 hopefully its soon but who knows

davek89

This gets asked with tedious regularity. At present, giffgaff seem to have no immediate intention of introducing this.
Remember that giffgaff is the budget brand owned by O2. At the moment, Wifi calling is a premium service, so if you want it you have to use the main O2 network and pay a premium. This will change once wifi calling becomes sufficiently widely adopted that giffgaff lose market share and hence profitability as a result of not offering it, or when they think that it will gain them sufficient additional (non O2) customers to make it profitable.
I don't know when that will be, but probably not for a while yet!

endorphin

davek89 At present, giffgaff seem to have no immediate intention of introducing this.

Oh yes they do! Please see my previous response above.

davek89

endorphin Maybe I'm just cynical, but there seems to be a lack of concrete commitment in that statement from the CTO.
Like I said, it's an economic decision, and I'm not holding my breath.

endorphin

davek89 it's an economic decision,

Absolutely!

I'm not holding my breath.

neither am I. But at least the answer wasn't a straightforward "no." 😉

endorphin

richybhoy36 theres never been any discussion about it on giffgaff !

Yes there has. See my previous response! 😉

richybhoy36

endorphin ok my apologies!

harrrrrry

endorphin

So now we're having a discussion about whether there has been a discussion?

I'm not sure if we should be doing that under the circumstances. So maybe we ought to have a discussion about whether to have discussion about the discussion first?

endorphin

harrrrrry is this a 5 minute discussion?

harrrrrry

endorphin s this a 5 minute discussion?

Sorry, it seems to have finished more than 2 hours ago -- assuming it ever started 😮

inspiron42

The single biggest thing any network can do to increase their network coverage is to add WiFi calling. It is standard on modern phones, so why is it not activated on the network!