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		gruez on Nov 11, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Australia's 3G Shutdown – Why your 4G/5G Phone is ... >I live in the US and have never heard of a phone that uses a different technology for emergency calls vs. normal calls. Why is this? Is it worldwide? It affects all telephone calls. Presumably people don't notice it because they use voip apps (eg. whatsapp) instead.

rsynnott on Nov 11, 2024 [–]

Not necessarily, per the article. Some phones can make normal calls over VoLTE, but will fail to make emergency calls over it.

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