10-23-2023, 03:47 PM
(10-19-2023, 08:30 PM)Kevin Kofler Wrote: How would that solve anything? VoIP is only workable if you have working mobile data, which depends on the exact same carriers as the normal phone calls. A cell phone that can only make and receive phone calls when near a WiFi hotspot is useless.
I'd have to look it up again, but there's a way to do this with a carrier less android and I'm assuming the same trick can be done with the PP.
Calls made near hot spots only is less of an issue in suburban/urban areas.
While a PP would no longer be reliable as a daily driver, using VoIP in hotspots only for calls plus Reticulum's Sideband messaging service (similar to meshtastic, but not as far along in development) for SMS beyond hot spots because it can use wifi, bluetooth and ham radio signals to carry messages is a patch work replacement scenario I've been looking at.
This may be overly optimistic, but it gives me an excuse to learn more about the related elements.
