Re:Pixel 5 review: Google spends its bill-of-materials budge...
by seraphsf on Monday November 09, 2020 @09:17PM
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The WiFi industry is working on a new "cell->wifi" standard called OpenRoaming. Pixel phones turned on OpenRoaming support with Android 11.
Re:Pixel 5 review: Google spends its bill-of-materials budge...
by lttlrck on Monday November 09, 2020 @08:31PM
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LTE WiFi offload takes care of securely transiting voice over untrusted networks (like your home network) to the telcos core network using IPSec.
Re:Pixel 5 review: Google spends its bill-of-materials budge...
by Dylan16807 on Monday November 09, 2020 @09:01PM
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5G has a bunch of frequencies in the same range as wifi, too. They can handle a good chunk of density.
Maybe if there was some "cell->wifi" standard that could happen, but I'm somewhat doubtful about the benefits there. You'd also have to be super careful, for the same reason you wouldn't really want to join a random open network.