Re: Voice plansI wonder if SIP-based telephony will equal better voice quality?
If there is one thing that I have noticed about Facebook Messenger's calling, it's that the voice quality is much better than that of my regular cell service on my phone. I think that is a virtue of it being a data-based service that Facebook wants to make sure has really good quality. At least, that's what I'm thinking.
Voice plansReleasing an updated IP stack isn't the main issue here. It's the wireless operators selling and activating iPads with the voice plan enabled.
Remember, VoLTE requires a valid voice plan since it's running on the baseband processor, not the application processor like other OTT solutions. So even though VoLTE leverages LTE data packets for voice sessions, those QCI=1 packets are coming out of your voice bucket not counted towards your data allotment.
So it's up to the operator to provision your iPad service for voice (over LTE), assuming that users are fine using generic iPad phone number. Enabling iPad for VoLTE operation via iOS CarrierBundle software update is literally the easiest part, and a non-issue here.
So it is a must in my opinion, not the iPad specific thing, but the voice on our digital devices.
If there is one thing that I have noticed about Facebook Messenger's calling, it's that the voice quality is much better than that of my regular cell service on my phone. I think that is a virtue of it being a data-based service that Facebook wants to make sure has really good quality. At least, that's what I'm thinking.
Remember, VoLTE requires a valid voice plan since it's running on the baseband processor, not the application processor like other OTT solutions. So even though VoLTE leverages LTE data packets for voice sessions, those QCI=1 packets are coming out of your voice bucket not counted towards your data allotment.
So it's up to the operator to provision your iPad service for voice (over LTE), assuming that users are fine using generic iPad phone number. Enabling iPad for VoLTE operation via iOS CarrierBundle software update is literally the easiest part, and a non-issue here.