VoLTE and Wifi Calling: Safe or not?

User2288

There was some discussion a while ago about VoLTE having a vulnerability and such. I don't remember the exact details and didn't really understand it then either.

Bottom line: At the moment is it safe ( more private?) to use VoLTE on my pixel 6 with GOS or not? BTW I don't even know if my carrier has this. I do know my service is LTE.

Next question is about VoWifi. I really don't understand what this is and am wondering if I should enable or not? I don't understand its implications. Can anyone inform me?

Thank you.

csis01

The vulnerability was corrected

User2288

csis01
Ok thanks mate.

Any one use wifi calling? Any suggestions as to its benefits or cons?

treequell

User2288 It's pro is that you can make phone calls whilst you don't have mobile signal. I can't think of any other advantage.

You might be interested to read this section of the website https://grapheneos.org/faq#cellular-tracking

Exodus7675

Are you all sure about that? I think it was at least 3 vulns. Can you confirm the 3 different vulns were fixed?

bookreader

There's also vulnerabilities to using your cell carrier's 3G voice service. More or less than VoLTE or VoWIFI? Who is to know?

Note: VoLTE and VoWIFI are basically the same thing, differing in whose network the data is routed over. VoLTE the call is routed over cell network, VoWIFI the call is routed over whatever Wifi AP you happen to be connected to. If I recall correctly, its fundamentally SIP, like any VoIP PSTN phone, and having media layer encryption (which some other VoIP phone may or may not have). Copper pair phone lines are basically the only alternative to SIP nowadays for access to PSTN, and I don't know if anyone is even connecting those anymore.

If you want to break away from the PSTN vulnerabilities, you'll need to use some other means of voice[/video] communication.