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Does ID mobile support receiving of SMS messages over WiFi calling?

  • October 29, 2021
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JohnAndy
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I am considering moving from BT Mobile to ID Mobile.

I have a Huawei P-Smart 2019 and I live in an area where there is no mobile signal in my house.

I therefore rely on WiFi calling to keep myself connected. In particular, I have various bank (and similar) accounts where I’m expected to be able to receive a text containing a security code - a form of two factor authentication.

So the ability to receive SMS messages is very important to me.

Now, I looked at ID Mobile’s published information about their WiFi Calling service.

They specifically state that the service allows you to make and receive voice calls, and to send SMS messages.

However, it does not state that the receiving of SMS messages is supported.

I think it’s most likely that it would be supported, and that they just didn’t bother to explicitly list this feature in their description of the service.

However, because this feature is of key importance to me, I would like to confirm that before I would proceed to switch to ID Mobile.

Is anyone able to confirm this?

Further to this, I’d be interested to hear any comments about how well the WiFi Calling services works. Is it a mature and reliable service, or is it maybe still a bit new and suffering from teething problems, for example?

Thanks in advance, John

Best answer by WelshPaul

I just tested SMS over WiFi Calling and I can confirm that I successfully sent and received an SMS. 👍

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  • October 30, 2021

I just tested SMS over WiFi Calling and I can confirm that I successfully sent and received an SMS. 👍


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WelshPaul wrote:

I just tested SMS over WiFi Calling and I can confirm that I successfully sent and received an SMS. 👍

Great! Thanks, Paul, for taking the trouble to try this out :-)