Voice ?

Hi Dave, if your SIM is a voice and data SIM, then a voice call would be billed in the same way. So in effect you would be using your computer as a GSM phone. Can't see why Vodafone would object to this? I'll make some querries on your behalf. The only possible issue I could see is if there are patents around GSM call's. If the dongle was sold but only licenced as a data device then it would mean patent infringement if Vodafone were to sell it with those bits of functionality. However if you were to somehow activate this by gluing together your own bit's of software and use it I don't know how that would work legally? I look forward to seeing who in the OS community get's this to work smoothly! :-) .... Kind regards, Nicholas.

K3565 .. that's E169G huawei isn't it...?? you can do it with propper firmware.... well.. you "just" need control the calls via one of the 3 TTyUSBs the stick presents, ttyusb2 is the data (control) serial port, and ttyusb1 is the voice data port. The control is AT commands based (hayes, etsi and some propietary), even for supplementary network services call hold variants is AT+CHLD=X where x normally 1 2 or 4 depending the operation. The "voice" data would be chunks of gsm encoded stream passed to/from the voice port. It's known there's a development in Asterisk to use this sticks as gsm trunks, but I'm not aware of a desktop application. the parts are out there to build that, some are in chan_sebi for asterisk (query routines, modem and network configuration (imei,PIN), write/read voice data port functions) and must be some softphone GUI reusable..

Hi Dave, well the VMC software allows you a data connection. So I guess what you want is a telephony stack to use this as a 1 mobile phone. Or as a VoIP phone. You can do VoIP as is if you install the appropriate client. (Which is really a data call anyway.) Unfortunately there is no telephony stack included with the Vodafone Mobile Connect software. There is an open source telephony stack called Ofono which could be used, but that requires a serious amount of work! So the short answer is I don't think this is possible at the moment. If you have an idea on how to implement this, or where some people are working on another open source project that we could collaborate on I'd be happy to know about it. Kind regards, Nicholas.