Republic Wireless

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Here's what you do when faced with a terrible wifi connection: turn wifi off on the phone. Forces the phone to cell.

According to their latest blog posting they're looking at allowing the user to change the Defy's default behavior to call over cellular first, then to wifi when cellular isn't available. That sounds like it'd be a very costly move on their part, but they claim its for customer satisfaction...

One solution that we believe has promise is actually addressing the need for handover itself. If you’ve used our Wi-Fi+ app, you know that it preemptively checks the call quality of a Wi-Fi network before allowing the call to go through as VOIP, otherwise it will send it over cell. We believe we can offer you the option to “reverse” the hybrid calling logic to prefer cell first, Wi-Fi second. Simply put, this would turn your DEFY XT into a traditional cell phone, only with the added benefits of Wi-Fi calling and texting whenever you don’t have cellular coverage. This goes against our core belief of “Wi-Fi is better,” and will definitely cost us financially, but we believe it’s a worthy sacrifice to give all of you so that you can have a better experience.