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by blisterpeanuts 1207 days ago
These are very good suggestions. Do you use a smartphone? I was wondering if calling-over-wifi is less trackable than using a tower.
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I have never owned a cell phone. My Librem 5 is “coming soon” LOL!
VoWiFi for LTE is what carriers (in the UK at least) try to encourage if you have poor signal at home. It still relies on your SIM being in the phone and actually makes a L2TP or SIP connection through to the carrier's server. I know because I disabled all these NAT passthroughs on my router and VoWiFi didn't work at all for me on EE with an Android phone (but did for my wife with her iPhone on Virgin). So you can still be tracked since the connection to the carrier's server requires an identity - it won't carry calls for just anybody!
> calling-over-wifi is less trackable than using a tower.

Not if using whatsapp/messenger for calling over wifi and the probability that the other person has an app capable of calling over wifi different than whatsapp/messenger is rather low.

My Samsung with T-Mobile is capable of connecting to cellular networks via wifi, which is useful in my neighborhood where T-mo is a weaker signal.