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Does your network charge for WiFi?

Ever since I purchased one of my previous phones about a year ago I noticed that the carrier I was about to sign up for stated that they offered free wifi as part of the package. So basically you could connect to a wifi signal and they wouldn't charge you for it. At the time I said to the sales person that surly that's always the case as the wifi signal is not apart of the data usage and its and external source the data. The sales person said that some carriers do change for this though.
Is this true? I still do see carriers advertising this as part of the package so wondered it some contracts don't come with "free wifi"

My network (T-Mobile US) does not charge for data or calls (providing you have the "Free WiFi Calling" addon) over WiFi, however, I think texts are still charged.

On O2 in the UK it's free use of The Cloud at it's hotspots, and supposedly BT Openzone hotspots (can I use them? like bugger can I!) where as otherwise their use would be chargeable

Sparksltd said:
Ever since I purchased one of my previous phones about a year ago I noticed that the carrier I was about to sign up for stated that they offered free wifi as part of the package. So basically you could connect to a wifi signal and they wouldn't charge you for it. At the time I said to the sales person that surly that's always the case as the wifi signal is not apart of the data usage and its and external source the data. The sales person said that some carriers do change for this though.
Is this true? I still do see carriers advertising this as part of the package so wondered it some contracts don't come with "free wifi"
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You're talking about their hot spots right, asnd not say, your own personal wireless network?

Sparksltd said:
Ever since I purchased one of my previous phones about a year ago I noticed that the carrier I was about to sign up for stated that they offered free wifi as part of the package. So basically you could connect to a wifi signal and they wouldn't charge you for it. At the time I said to the sales person that surly that's always the case as the wifi signal is not apart of the data usage and its and external source the data. The sales person said that some carriers do change for this though.
Is this true? I still do see carriers advertising this as part of the package so wondered it some contracts don't come with "free wifi"
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I imagine they are talking about Hotspots coming with their network. For example I can connect for free to any SFR xDSL box in France if its Hotspot function is enabled.
Evidently if you connect your phone to your personal WiFi Network your phone provider can't charge you for anything...

Ya, I believe hotspots talking about too. Ie, here in Canada a provider called bell has wifi hotspots I believe at Starbucks and they are free with some plans, if not all. Don't think anyone can limit wifi access, although I think with blackberrys they maybe able to, not with androids tho, and why would they limit you.

On AT&T if at an at&t hotspot at like starbucks or something the data used from the hotspot is free and not counted against your plan.

For T-Mobile, minutes/texts are still charged when you are on WiFi if you don't purchase the WiFi hotspot plan - which is a additional $10 a month. Texts are still charged if you are on WiFi with the plan but not minutes.

crawler9 said:
My network (T-Mobile US) does not charge for data or calls (providing you have the "Free WiFi Calling" addon) over WiFi, however, I think texts are still charged.
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Wifi calling DOES use minutes and texts (texts are ONLY charged if you, pay per text or have a limited bucket, ie: 500 texts per month)
T-Mobile USA ( I'M in Jersey City NJ) does NOT charge for wifi usage, only mobile data usage.
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Babydoll25 said:
Wifi calling DOES use minutes and texts (texts are ONLY charged if you, pay per text or have a limited bucket, ie: 500 texts per month)
T-Mobile USA ( I'M in Jersey City NJ) does NOT charge for wifi usage, only mobile data usage.
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T-Mobile told me that WiFi Hotspot Calling feature is a free add-on for most plans. They added it for me and when I'm using WiFi, minutes don't come out of my rather limited bucket of anytime minutes. Texts are not affected by WiFi calling. You'll pay (or not) just as you normally would. Without the add-on, WiFi calling will use minutes, but with it, it won't. Sorry I took so long to respond, but I just hadn't been following this thread.
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crawler9 said:
T-Mobile told me that WiFi Hotspot Calling feature is a free add-on for most plans. They added it for me and when I'm using WiFi, minutes don't come out of my rather limited bucket of anytime minutes. Texts are not affected by WiFi calling. You'll pay (or not) just as you normally would. Without the add-on, WiFi calling will use minutes, but with it, it won't. Sorry I took so long to respond, but I just hadn't been following this thread.
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I think you should call T-Mobile back and get a clarification, you seem to have been given wrong information.
WiFi calling on T-Mobile DOES eat into your minutes. T-mobile has provided WiFi calling as a way to make up for their ****y network and dead spots in many areas. However, using wifi calling still uses your minutes.

Hi xaccers
xaccers said:
On O2 in the UK it's free use of The Cloud at it's hotspots, and supposedly BT Openzone hotspots (can I use them? like bugger can I!) where as otherwise their use would be chargeable
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BT Openzone and BT Fon is free if you have a BT Total Broadband account.
Which is an unlimited amount of data usage up-to your monthly package, i.g. 10GB, 40GB, or Unlimted.
Which as you say, other wise it must be purchased.
Take Care
TheQuest

SamsungVibrant said:
I think you should call T-Mobile back and get a clarification, you seem to have been given wrong information.
WiFi calling on T-Mobile DOES eat into your minutes. T-mobile has provided WiFi calling as a way to make up for their ****y network and dead spots in many areas. However, using wifi calling still uses your minutes.
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My bad, perhaps you were right. I just had multiple T-Mobile employees telling me otherwise. Apparently they don't know what they're talking about and at least now I do.

US T-mob T999 Wifi Calling for Orange UK?

Desperately need Wifi calling so I bought a US T-mobile T999. (works beautifully for US T-mob sim card)
How to get it working on Orange UK simcard??
I am happy to share files if you guys need copies etc to try and get this working.
On Wednesday I will be cutting my UK Orange sim (works with wifi calling beautifully blackberry) and popping it the S3 to see if it works.
I think I need to put UK settings somewhere, but I don't know where?
Any developers want to help? Am happy to upload USA T-mobile Wifi Calling Files

You need to unlock it.. and if you Google it you can setup WiFi calling on any ROM.
Sent from my SGH-T999

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joshnichols189 said:
You need to unlock it.. and if you Google it you can setup WiFi calling on any ROM.
Sent from my SGH-T999
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Wifi calling is carrier dependent, only ONE carrier per country has it, in the US it is T-Mobile USA, in the UK it is Orange. Wifi calling routes your cellular call through the internet. It is not about setting Gmail, or SIP Calls etc.
AT&T for example, does not have that capability.

orange uk wifi calling help
mikeycollins13 said:
Wifi calling is carrier dependent, only ONE carrier per country has it, in the US it is T-Mobile USA, in the UK it is Orange. Wifi calling routes your cellular call through the internet. It is not about setting Gmail, or SIP Calls etc.
AT&T for example, does not have that capability.
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Just tried UK orange sim on Unlocked SG3 T999.... No luck 'sim error' I need to find a way to change routing of the calls as we do on blackberries. Any clues?

T-Mobile Wi-Fi Calling while international

Hello,
I am having a problem with wifi calling. I am on a stock un-rooted Nexus 6p on T-Mobile.
I was just in Columbia and wifi calling would not work.
I tested my wifi strength and I was at 5 Megs up and 5 5 megs down.
My wifi calling works and connects fine the the USA every time.
My problems with Wifi calling while international also took place in Amsterdam and Germany.
I did try to connect to my VPN in the US then turn back on wifi calling so that T-Mobile would think that I was in the USA.
Has anyone had this problem ?? What is the way to fix it???
Thanks in advance

You don't need to VPN back to the US. If you are overseas, you can connect to local WiFi to make free calls back to US numbers. Any calls made to non-US numbers will be charged at the applicable long distance rates.
Anyways, if you are trying to connect to a public wifi, many require a check-in via web browser. then you will be able to use wifi calling.

I can confirm that I was properly connected to the hotel wifi. I can also confirm that the port or ports were not blocked on the hotel wifi network because 2 other of my friends were there on the same network and were able to use wifi calling. My friends are also on T-mobile.
Is there a way to check the status of wifi calling on Nexus 6p running 6.0.1. Like I said it works fine in the US.

That's interesting. I am rooted on pure nexus and works fine in USA. I haven't traveled out of the country to test. But I will be in traveling a lot the next few months so I really hope it works.
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Let us know when you travel out of the USA because it works fine in the US with no problem. as far as I can tell.

Moto X pure with international wifi

I use my pure with t-mobile and will travel to Japan next month for 1 week. I read that wifi calling is not available on this phone at all. I plan to rent a portable hotspot anyhow, so does the sms or mms still work?
I was also checking out how to turn off data roaming on my phone and noticed it was already off but hasn't affected anything so far. Is that normal? I was hoping to at least have text working or would have to revert to email to keep in contact with my family if we separate.

I'm not entirely sure what you are asking here... SMS and MMS will need a connection to T-Mobile, the later will require data connection.
WiFi isn't really "international" or US or Japan, it is just WiFi... although there are some regulatory aspects to it (and channel restrictions in the US), your WiFi should work just fine in Japan. Before getting or renting a hotspot, check out where you are going and look into Softbank's Free WiFi Passport and Travel Japan WiFi, they require registration but can get you free WiFi at almost 500,000 locations in Japan for 2 weeks, there are also paid WiFi networks you can subscribe to. http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2279.html
You might want to look into a Google Voice account, set it up before you go, or get a local SIM.
You could also change your T-Mobile plan to T-Mobile ONE and Simple Choice North America for the term you are there, it would likely cost more but offers free data, text and 20 cent/min voice calls.

chitin said:
I use my pure with t-mobile and will travel to Japan next month for 1 week. I read that wifi calling is not available on this phone at all. I plan to rent a portable hotspot anyhow, so does the sms or mms still work?
I was also checking out how to turn off data roaming on my phone and noticed it was already off but hasn't affected anything so far. Is that normal? I was hoping to at least have text working or would have to revert to email to keep in contact with my family if we separate.
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By chance did you end up testing your data speeds in Japan? I am going there in a month and am trying to avoid a pocket wifi unless absolutely needed.

jjchdc said:
By chance did you end up testing your data speeds in Japan? I am going there in a month and am trying to avoid a pocket wifi unless absolutely needed.
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I leave on Friday and may end up getting a pocket wifi for 1 week @ $50. T-mobile said my data and all text is still unlimited over there but it caps at 3G speed and I prefer to to have something with us instead of looking for wifi hotspots. Voice calls are $.20/minute, so wifi will have to be enough.
acejavelin said:
I'm not entirely sure what you are asking here... SMS and MMS will need a connection to T-Mobile, the later will require data connection.
WiFi isn't really "international" or US or Japan, it is just WiFi... although there are some regulatory aspects to it (and channel restrictions in the US), your WiFi should work just fine in Japan. Before getting or renting a hotspot, check out where you are going and look into Softbank's Free WiFi Passport and Travel Japan WiFi, they require registration but can get you free WiFi at almost 500,000 locations in Japan for 2 weeks, there are also paid WiFi networks you can subscribe to. http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2279.html
You might want to look into a Google Voice account, set it up before you go, or get a local SIM.
You could also change your T-Mobile plan to T-Mobile ONE and Simple Choice North America for the term you are there, it would likely cost more but offers free data, text and 20 cent/min voice calls.
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Does google voice use data only? I have a Voice acct and if I rent a personal hotspot, that would work out nicely. I'm a little worried about not being able to make any voice calls in Japan since there's a T-mobile charge. But if our hotspot covers text and google voice, I think we're all set.

chitin said:
I leave on Friday and may end up getting a pocket wifi for 1 week @ $50. T-mobile said my data and all text is still unlimited over there but it caps at 3G speed and I prefer to to have something with us instead of looking for wifi hotspots. Voice calls are $.20/minute, so wifi will have to be enough.
Does google voice use data only? I have a Voice acct and if I rent a personal hotspot, that would work out nicely. I'm a little worried about not being able to make any voice calls in Japan since there's a T-mobile charge. But if our hotspot covers text and google voice, I think we're all set.
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It can... Install the Google Voice app or use the Hangouts Dialer plugin.and it can run completely on data.

thats what i am planning to do when i go to the carribean for a few months. i dont have tmobile but when i get there im going to do google voice on one of my phones and a simcard from there for another. check your prices though because what i found is amazing over there. so which ever works cheapest i may go with, but i have been integrated with google voice for years with sprint
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Using wi-fi calling on a G900A on T-mobile

I just now switched from AT&T to T-mobile because I finally got sick of AT&T for various reasons including very high prices. The network lock is removed. How can I get wi-fi calling to work on this phone? When I try to enable it, I get "To enable this service you must confirm your emergency address.". Then I see "Wi-Fi calling lets you make and receive calls over Wi-Fi with your AT&T account. When you use Wi-Fi Calling, information about the country where the Wi-Fi connection is made will be sent to your carrier. Learn more about Wi-Fi Calling.". The last two words are a link to https://m.att.com/shopmobile/wireless/features/wifi-calling.html?referrer=. It seems there's a hangup of AT&T versus T-mobile. What should I be doing to get this working?
In case anyone is wondering, this particular phone is being used because it must be kept unrooted. I have a G900T that has been rooted.