• TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee
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        5 months ago

        You’re gonna need to unpack what you mean here because TCP/IP is the basis for pretty much everything, even modern phones

        • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.net
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          5 months ago

          Phones, like landline phones or when you’re not using wifi calling, use a totally different method of communication than the internet. VoIP and WiFi calling do not use the phone part, they use the internet and are a completely different protocol/method.

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            5 months ago

            Alrighty let’s learn some vocab

            POTS lines, aka plain old telephone system, are what you’re referring to when you say landlines

            When you’re calling off of Wi-Fi, most of the time you’re using a technology called VoLTE- Voice over LTE, which still functions on top of TCP/IP

            The difference that matters here is the VoIP and VoLTE, as well as Wi-Fi calling are all digital protocols over TCP/IP networks.

            If you really wanna get specific, most digital phone systems use protocols called Telephony, and SIP(session initiation protocol)

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              5 months ago

              I work in telecommunications. This is pretty much exactly correct.

              Not really a rebuttal to anything you said, but to expand on the fact that WiFi calling uses VoLTE “most of the time”, which is true because in some conditions SIP is used, but if you are using an Android or iOS phone, you are always using a modem, the voice line is never analog, and all digital voice communications are sent over TCP/IP.