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#311032 8-Dec-2023 19:26
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Wondering if someone can help. My wife's and my Android phones were on Skinny and our use of Whatsapp calling were no problem. But we have recently changed to 2degrees and now when my son voice calls from Australia, he can hear me but his voice volume is very low. 

 

This is same with two phones here and two phones from Australia.

 

There seems to be a need for clearance and I was asked for a group add. Now there is a contact group labelled '2degrees' with his ph no. in it. This was never a need with Skinny.

 

Then I called my wife's phone over Whatsapp. The voice volume wasn't great and both our phones had a message that the signal was weak. The Skinny/signal was 1 dot in our locn and the 2degrees is 4. A mystery how Skinny worked fine and 2d not. 

 

Just wanted to see if something rang a bell with someone.

 

TIA.

 

PS don't ask me to ring 2d for help. Much pain there!!


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  #3169854 8-Dec-2023 19:57
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That makes no sense. WhatsApp calls work over data, nothing to do with your provider. I would suggest trying another app like for example Facebook Messenger, FaceTime or Signal. 





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  #3169858 8-Dec-2023 20:52
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Thanks, Michael. Of course. I jumped to a stupid conclusion.

 

As an aside, I was with Orcon now I see it is now labelled 2degrees on speedtest. I have to stop mixing them now!

 

I will try again tomorrow just in case there is some fault. Then I will have to see if my son and I can try with Messenger. Never used it myself.


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  #3170216 10-Dec-2023 08:21
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I call my mate in AU often over Whatsapp and zero issues over mobile data or fibre 




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  #3170435 10-Dec-2023 21:20
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Thanks, all good now. What I didn't know was that he was travelling away from home so not near his wifi so that seems to be the problem. But, what do I know!!


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  #3170462 10-Dec-2023 23:10
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Part of it may be marketing/familiarity (or not noticing the 'data charges may apply ' to click)

I know of two older folk that couldn't put 2+2 when the pushes for say viber, jam you with 'make calls for free' and the assumption was made by the non techo users they used the towers, not a form of VoIP using data.

Similarly when it had issues because they turned off data when at home and couldn't work out wifi/4g priority when on the fringes of range.

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