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Starlink and Wifi Calling

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We’re being slowly pushed towards Starlink as we can’t get fibre without either vast expense or losing a mature flowing cherry tree. Existing adsl cable is blocked under the road and on our side in the garden. At the moment our ISP package includes free landline calls across Europe, and we still make a few.
From what I understand VOIP will not work with Starlink in France due to regulatory issues with the IP addresses that Starlink use not being based in France.
I think, that is always dangerous, that WIFI calling is not the same as VOIP am I correct?
I can use wifi calling on my mobile but I cannot, at the moment, confirm if wifi calling works with Starlink. Anyone know?.

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We have starlink here and as far as I am aware it does wifi calling. Our mobile signal is not great indoors and im pretty sure my mobile jumps onto WiFi at times when on a call but not sure how I could physically verify this.
 
Thanks Jimmy. From what I can read online there may still be a problem with Starlink and France due to the ip addresses that they use which I am beginning to realise will, be the same for VOIP and wifi calling.
I shall log a call with my mobile provider and ask them .
 
Another Starlink user here, we gave up on VOIP, could have been our provider but was not a pleasant experience.
We have virtually no Mobil coverage so now just use Starlink to connect to WhatsApp, Telegram or Signal, don’t know if that’s classed as WiFi calling?
 
We use WhatsApp for friends and family too but when one needs to contact a landline number back in the UK wifi calling from a mobile comes into it’s own as a compatible app is not required.
I’m reading lots of local forum and support groups that suggest the mobile supplier must put Starkink’s IP addresses on their “allowed” list for wifi calling to work.
I think a 1 month free trial of Starlink is on the cards but will have to wait until the end of next month. There is no date set yet for the copper to be cut off so we have 1-3 years, probably, to find an alternative.
 
Andy, are Eutelsat a viable alternative. I thought the French Government were investing in them so as to have an alternative to relying on Elon?
 
Thanks Robert. There are alternatives to Starkink, SkyDsl and Nordnet for example. They both need full size dishes and point to the east, same direction as our Freesat dish. Starlink point NW with a much smaller receiver, due to the quantit6 of the satellites perhaps?
Our freesat dish suffers in severe weather, something I’ve read that the Starlink system is less prone too.
 
Wi-Fi calling (VoWiFi) is actually a form of VoIP, but it's handled differently, it's tied into your carrier's network and uses your phone number directly. Starlink is capable of supporting it, we've seen it work elsewhere. The catch in France is whether the carrier allows traffic from Starlink's IPs, which are often identified as foreign. That can lead to blocked or dropped calls even if the connection itself is sound
 
Thank you Layna, that is exactly what I have discovered. I have logged a call with my carrier to see if I can find out. So far I have been unable to find any mention of my carrier, a company called Free, having issues with wifi calling on Starlink. The wife works for a tech company I’ll get her to ask around their engineers to see of any of them use Starlink.
 
Ah for the good old days. Pair of copper wires. Sorted.

I think fibre is a postcode lottery
 
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