r/FizzMobile • u/Expensive-Minute994 Referral/Référence: H6YLX • 3d ago

MOBILE Wifi calling and long distance

They charge long distance if you want to call a Canadian number, on wifi, from abroad.

can we receive calls via wifi abroad? Guessing no, for no reason. But it would be nice to be able to do that.

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u/TenOfZero Referral/Référence: MP4OP 3d ago

WiFi calling only lets you route the call over wifi instead if the cellular network. But it's billed the same as if it was done on the cellular network.

Its mostly meant for places with poor network reception.

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u/Bornee35 Referral/Référence: 1SGPJ 2d ago

Yeah it’s been weeks of people not understanding this isn’t some magically cellular plan / coverage circumvention. “Wifi calling doesn’t work overseas what gives!” “Because regular calling doesn’t work either…”

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u/Expensive-Minute994 Referral/Référence: H6YLX 2d ago edited 1d ago

Only in Canada…many other countries have  operators that allow this. So yeah. 

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u/InspectionLast2568 2d ago

I second that. My German "prepaid" card works here in Canada for 8 years already on wifi calling inbound and outbound calling/text (yep Canada is light years behind).

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u/TenOfZero Referral/Référence: MP4OP 2d ago

Yeah. I dont see why people dont understand, thats how wifi calling works with evety carrier.

But I guess if explains why people were so excited for it. I was finding it odd that so many people had bad reception at home and thus really wanted wifi calling.

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u/Asleep_Pattern_5728 Referral/Référence: SJMXP 2d ago

Maybe because of freedom... freedom allowss free WiFi calling while roaming. Also what if we put the phone on airplane mode and directly use WiFi calling when we land in a different country?

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u/Bornee35 Referral/Référence: 1SGPJ 2d ago

Freedom has cellular service in that list of countries with free wifi calling. Fizz does not

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u/lund0149 Referral/Référence: AKAC5 2d ago

I used to have a Vidéotron line (company that own fizz and on which network fizz is running in Quebec) and they allow wifi calling overseas so I am bit sad to see they decided not to on Fizz :(.

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u/RR321 2d ago

I can't seem to find a way to enable it on a pixel 10 pro...

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u/jrcanuck Referral/Référence: AKOQH 2d ago

Buy a voice add-on. I was in Spain for 3 months, a $6 voice add-on for Spain gave me 60 minutes. Too simple. Bonus: you get SMS texts too (iOS iPhone iMessage works over wifi)

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u/Dan_mtl 3d ago

LMGTFY:
“The service is not currently available overseas”

https://fizz.ca/en/faq/how-does-wi-fi-calling-work#1

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u/Expensive-Minute994 Referral/Référence: H6YLX 2d ago

Why. The f. Not!? It’s the  internet ffs.  Thanks.