Well at least all the texts about it not working will stop now.

I was thinking back over the weekend and when I was doing the GPRS and then 3G testing before they went live for customers

I remember when every single customer on go live for GPRS got set to ' GPRSONLY ' in the Core network when it should of been set to ' BOTH ' and then running the script on the HLR to fix as customers could not place voice calls

Those were the days

Damn. I recently got a Nokia 2720 Flip when deciding to go down the dumbphone route expliticly because it was 4G, supposedly supported VoLTE and could hotspot (and maybe Nokia for nostalgia), but nope calls stopped working on this one too this morning.

Curiously, SMS still works for now. both sending and receiving. Data is fine.

It's got an explicit place to set an IMS APN under Settings > Mobile network and Data > APN Settings - SIM1 > IMS settings but I'm having no luck repeating the normal Kogan or OneNZ (VFNZ) data APN info here.
Attempts to find explicit IMS APN settings for VFNZ/Kogan or extract the IMS APN from a working rooted Android phone (with another Kogan SIM in that) have come to nothing so far.

Anyone else using a KaiOS phone who's had better luck?

aw:

 

Damn. I recently got a Nokia 2720 Flip when deciding to go down the dumbphone route expliticly because it was 4G, supposedly supported VoLTE and could hotspot (and maybe Nokia for nostalgia), but nope calls stopped working on this one too this morning.

 

Curiously, SMS still works for now. both sending and receiving. Data is fine.

 

It's got an explicit place to set an IMS APN under Settings > Mobile network and Data > APN Settings - SIM1 > IMS settings but I'm having no luck repeating the normal Kogan or OneNZ (VFNZ) data APN info here.
Attempts to find explicit IMS APN settings for VFNZ/Kogan or extract the IMS APN from a working rooted Android phone (with another Kogan SIM in that) have come to nothing so far.

Anyone else using a KaiOS phone who's had better luck?

 

Maybe it does somewhere in the world, but without specific VoLTE profiles in firmware for NZ carriers you are s#*t out of luck! There are no settings you can change to make VoLTE work without those profiles present.

As of today my Unihertz Jelly Star running LineageOS 20 is unable to make calls. Text messages and mobile data still work.

I've contacted Unihertz to get a definitive answer on compatibility (ie, can the Jelly Star make 4G VoLTE emergency calls in Aotearoa New Zealand).

The important question - has 4G reception and speeds now improved?

boosacnoodle:

 

The important question - has 4G reception and speeds now improved?

 

wait for devices to start camping on B8 rather than B28 and drop in speed instead! Not many devices support B8 + B28 CA..

boosacnoodle:

 

The important question - has 4G reception and speeds now improved?

 

aw:

 

This soon?
Given my dumbphone can still text, I get the impression only the calling profiles have been killed off on OneNZ in Auckland, not the actual radios yet.

 

Sorry, no. 3G has been switched off, that is how your phone was making calls. 3G didn't require profiles to work, just the correct frequency bands and standard, (GSM or CDMA). Your phone simply doesn't have the required VoLTE profiles for calls to work in a 4G/5G only world.

boosacnoodle:

 

The important question - has 4G reception and speeds now improved?

 

Too soon.

Ask again in a quarter when there's actual numbers and tuning has been done to all of the sites.

I noticed in one of the updates One NZ made to their app was to allow users to opt-in for what I believe is signal strength mapping

DjShadow:

 

I noticed in one of the updates One NZ made to their app was to allow users to opt-in for what I believe is signal strength mapping

 

Interesting... Unsure what this would actually do or why...

With hundreds and thousands of devices on the network and all of the metrics in the world.. they would already know what needs tuning and where it's missing. They would already have the numbers.

The cynic in me says that it's marketing fluff to make it appear that they're listening to customers.

MaxineN:

 

DjShadow:

 

I noticed in one of the updates One NZ made to their app was to allow users to opt-in for what I believe is signal strength mapping

 

 

 

 

Interesting... Unsure what this would actually do or why...

 

With hundreds and thousands of devices on the network and all of the metrics in the world.. they would already know what needs tuning and where it's missing. They would already have the numbers.

 

If they can couple even coarse location data with it, doesn't it mean they can pair location data with signal strength to verify that real world matches coverage map modelling?

Just recently I read that the ACCC were pulling their three networks up on unrealistic coverage maps, Telstra I believe were the worst, and the result was that the ACCC were mandating a minimum modelled signal strength to be mapped. One may be seeing how the winds are blowing in Australia and trying to avoid similar here. 

snj:

 

MaxineN:

 

DjShadow:

 

I noticed in one of the updates One NZ made to their app was to allow users to opt-in for what I believe is signal strength mapping

 

 

 

 

Interesting... Unsure what this would actually do or why...

 

With hundreds and thousands of devices on the network and all of the metrics in the world.. they would already know what needs tuning and where it's missing. They would already have the numbers.

 

 

If they can couple even coarse location data with it, doesn't it mean they can pair location data with signal strength to verify that real world matches coverage map modelling?

They would already have coarse location data, including med/avg and a lot of other wonderful metrics. So this setting is extremely poorly explained.. or it doesn't do anything.