New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Hypothesis: Cellular providers are deprioritizing voice calls?
Ask HN: Hypothesis: Cellular providers are deprioritizing voice calls? 6 by tkdb | 9 comments on Hacker News. I switched from Verizon to T-Mobile, specifically because there were too many silent missed calls. Silent meaning my device never showed I had a missed call. This was a pattern across more than a year, spanning multiple devices (all iphones). It happens on both wifi and cellular. It happens with wifi calling enabled and disabled. It happens with people I call every day, in my address book, as well as new contacts (say someone I met who called to follow up). I called support, searched online, reset network settings multiple times at different points months apart. After being on T-Mobile for about a year, the degraded service is about the same as Verizon. Every week, more than once, people call me, my phone never rings, and I never see a missed call on my device. It happens at home, at work, on work trips in different states. I still get missed calls regularly and my device sh...