Poor Voice Call Quality With Mobile?

SJMALBA

flaneurs_lobster said:

SJMALBA said:

Potentially. a 4G phone would be better still?, but I'll see how things go with 2G before deciding if that's necessary.

Thanks again for all of the invaluable assistance. 

A 4G phone would not improve voice service using Lyca since they don't use VoLTE (as it's known).

Thanks.

Lebara (Vodafone is supposed to offer even better coverage than O2 in my area) seem to use VoLTE?

I have Lycamobile for 1p/month for up to 6 months, so we'll see how things go...

SJMALBA

My elderly mother uses the cordless landline phone as a speakerphone (due to being hard of hearing, this is better than holding the phone to her ear); my Nokia 3510i does not offer this option, so she can't use it, thus 'complicating' the otherwise successful move to using a mobile as a replacement for the landline for making outgoing calls - do modern non-smart mobiles, such as the Nokia 105 4G, offer this facility?

flaneurs_lobster

SJMALBA said:

My elderly mother uses the cordless landline phone as a speakerphone (due to being hard of hearing, this is better than holding the phone to her ear); my Nokia 3510i does not offer this option, so she can't use it, thus 'complicating' the otherwise successful move to using a mobile as a replacement for the landline for making outgoing calls - do modern non-smart mobiles, such as the Nokia 105 4G, offer this facility?

The 105 4G does have speakerphone (at least that what the Argos Q&A says!). What it also has is micro-USB (rather than USB Type-C) which is either of no consequence to you or, like me, makes you run away in despair.

SJMALBA

hadid21 said:

So the quality depends on the connection, which means that you will be heard in places where the connection will be bad. Or the phone's speakers are simply broken and need to be repaired to hear your caller clearly.

Not sure If I'm entirely understanding you, but, my mobile is ancient, and doesn't have speakerphone functionality (AFAIK).

My elderly mother can use the landline cordless phone as a speakerphone (she can't hear very well using it as a normal 'to the ear' phone; likewise for the mobile used in this way), but due to the cost of calls for the landline, we are trying to use the mobile for outgoing calls rather than the landline.

Since getting an O2 based SIM (previous RWG SIM, which uses EE, was poor/unusable), the mobile works fine for me (the connection is sufficient, on 2G, for decent call quality), as I don't require to use a phone as a speakerphone.