From: cl@isbd.net   
      
   Arno Welzel  wrote:   
   > Chris Green, 2026-02-11 21:48:   
   >   
   > > This is suddenly becoming more impportant now that 3G is rapidly   
   > > disappearing.  My 'no name' tablet used to work fine at home but now   
   > > it doesn't.  We used to have good 3G coverage here, what we have now   
   > > is mediocre 4G and my tablet can't do VoLTE with my provider anyway,   
   > >   
   > > Being a cheapskate and not being a big mobile/cell user I don't want   
   > > to spend hundreds of pounds on a new device just to ba able to make   
   > > phone calls.  My £99 10" tablet is excellent in every way except for   
   > > its lack of VoLTE support on my (very cheap!) provider.   
   >   
   > At Amazon you find cheap 4G phones starting around £40. Of course these   
   > are then only feature phones and not Android based devices. But for the   
   > specific need to be able to do phone calls, that should be sufficient.   
   >   
   ... and they almost certainly won't do VoLTE or VoWiFi will they?   
   They certainly aren't listed as such by any of the providers I've   
   looked at?   
      
   > > So, is there any way of knowing if any generic, no name sort of tablet   
   > > may have working VoLTE on any particular provider?   
   > >   
   > > It really is a rather messy can of worms isn't it?!   
   >   
   > No, just the transition to a new technology.   
   >   
   3G just worked or didn't.  If you had a 3G phone (for the right region   
   probably) it worked.  You didn't have to look in a list of what   
   providers supported which phones to see if it would work for you.   
      
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