No Voice or Text on Inland Cellular (non-MVNO) but Internet Data Works!

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Try Ooma, AXVoice, 1-voip, or any other Voip provider that offers actual phone numbers and sip service (i.e. accepts softphones). Ooma has a very inexpensive service, no adds, just the regulatory fees. AxVoice has a nice comparison of residential voip providers, slanted as to why they are the best of course. And they are highly rated. Some cable/fiber internet services still offer sip service.

If one needs inbound and outbound calls from/to PSTN, these prices look pretty good in comparison to others vendors.
https://voip.ms/en/rates/united-states

SMS, as described in the wiki, sounds pretty iffy however.

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Without having my notes in front of me, from recollection, the problem is three-fold:

- First, the modem must support wcdma

- Second, the telephony software on the phone must be able to work with wcdma. I know Ofono does not. I'd have to look again at nmcli to be sure., but I don't think so.

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So while the G25-G supports wcdma, PinePhone as a whole does not support it, because it lacks the software for it. It seems rather moot (even misleading/confusing) to list it in the PinePhone specifications then.

Thanks again. I'm still learning.

I tested my PinePhone in the nearest H2O Cellular service locale yesterday (the big city around here). H2O worked very well with fully functional inbound and outbound voice, SMS text and 4G LTE data. I've settled on Mobian. It seemed to have the most stable mobile connection and Firefox seems to turn my PinePhone into a small electric hand warmer under Arch! I even wrote Mobian to my eMMC memory. It's too bad my H2O SIM card doesn't work anywhere near my home, but I might enable H2O autopay and then it'll cost me only $9 per three months (refills don't expire for 3 months), assuming that I don't use any appreciable data when I occasionally visit town. I think I'll drop Inland until they get VoLTE running. I don't really need to spend more money on Internet bits, because I already have unlimited bits though my WISP home service.

If you get a bar or two from H2O or another service at your house, you could always use a repeater/"range extender" with a directional antenna just to get service around your house.

When Pine64 built the Pinephone, it wasn't even a given VoLTE would work. So, it is still a possibility that cdma support may happen as more developers jump on board. To attract those developers, I think it was reasonable to state all feautures the modem is capable of. You've already got two out of three in most places, just need someone to work on the modem managers to get them to communicate with the modem correctly.