Nexus 5 likely to see Wi-Fi calling over T-mobile soon?

[jvai]

have a hacker mindset, & push things to work how you want them;

forget simply wifi calling, I want it all, *data calling* irrelevant of the air interface used;

I have a truphone sim, that was collecting dust in my wallet for the longest, last night I decided to try something,

*use it*, lol

it had like $39 odd on it in credit, as stated, I'm a current sprint sub, with google voice integration, I've gave the truphone number to no one, it's basically dormant, minus test calls to keep the account alive, but it's no contact number for me..


what I'm did last night was swap my sprint sim, for the truphone sim, to utilize it's data, while still having my main sprint number via google voice, which I can receive & make, calls, videochat, mms, sms via hangouts, I've set hangouts to *receive incoming calls* since the native dialer isn't tied to the sprint sim anymore (so no double rings from hangouts & the native dialer)...

I want to see how far that $39 will take me..

at home & at work, I'm connect to wifi, so only in between, out & about am I utilizing truphone AKA tmobile's hspa data service-





all calls via the hangouts / gv / sprint number are nothing but data calls, ither on tmobile's hspa or wifi, likewise with sms, mms, & of course video chat..

thru the native dialer the truphone number would be utilized

 

[jvai]

well, here's a link to back you up on this suspicion -

**Multi-Networking, the capability to maintain multiple network connections simultaneously.**

Android "L" Feature Spotlight: Multi-Networking Offers Seamless Network Switching, Easy Wi-Fi Accessories, And More

there's got to be a point within that, with ** "unmetered throughput" ** ..

Multi-networking

One of those invisible, under-the-hood changes is the addition of multi-networking. This allows the Android OS to connect to and maintain multiple simultaneous internet connections of various types. It's been a feature of other operating systems for years, and it's nice to see it coming to Android.

The biggest benefit of this is that your phone won't have to disconnect-and-reconnect between various networks whenever a new connection is needed. For example, if you want to send an MMS over the cellular connection and you're currently connected to WiFi, performance suffers as the phone jumps between connections. If you've ever lost your Wi-Fi connection and had to wait 15 seconds to start getting data over your cellular connection, you know the pain point Google's trying to eliminate here.


Android L features revealed: Networking improvements | Greenbot

mainly for VOlte, calls on 3g, wifi?

if this modular hangouts / gv dialer update is to be taken with some positive foresight, maybe it's google way of incorporating data calling within the OS, smack in our face,

but with android L, it won't be so modular, (whereas we won't even need a separate dialer & making hangouts an optional *also*) .. they're probable in the lab, smoothing this thing over like, jif peanut butter..

oooo, someone else see's it -

"Google has launched the ultimate OTT challenge in its updated Hangouts IM app that risks turning the telco into a completely dumb pipe, finally integrating it with Google Voice and SMS, all wrapped up in a slick, user-friendly, battery-efficient package."

"“Worst case scenario for the telcos would be if Google managed to make Hangouts a popular first choice dialer over the native dialer for users who still haven’t made the OTT switch,” he said."

(in the developer release of L, it's dialer, looks, similar, to the current updated hangouts dialer!)

Google Hangouts Dialler - the ultimate OTT threat | Telecom Asia