Considering the cost of VOIP traffic, I figured the providers would have capitalized on that long ago. VoLTE would have given them the chance to still be criminal with their plans and billing, but reduce the overall cost of routing traffic. There would be a high cost to setup or build out but the ROI would have been seen quickly enough.
VOIP traffic per user can be clear enough at 500k or less. Just imagine the amount of traffic that you could pass through at those speeds. To put stuff in perspective in a different way - I have renewable energy and Starlink at home. While I had this setup from long before, during Beryl I opened up the bandwidth on my "free" internet access. The prior setup was a free segmented VLAN for anyone to jump on with captive portal and a 1Mbps connection. When I say "opened up" I mean I doubled it to 2Mbps. There were 20+ persons from the community on the wireless on peak days and 8 persons averaged at any given point. Best believe some were on WhatsApp calls while others were browsing and messaging. What's the overall capacity that the companies can provider per user over LTE like now?
Yeah - thought so.
Most large companies are run by accountants and not technical persons who understand the processes and are forward thinking. It's about the bottom line for this year or quarter - not what the company can do moving forward.