Less than a month after AT&T was granted FCC permission to enable Wi-Fi calling in iOS 9, Verizon is asking for permission to do the same, The Verge reports. The company submitted a petition to the FCC asking for a similar waiver to the one granted to AT&T, allowing it to enable Wi-Fi calling despite the lack of TTY support for the hearing impaired. T-Mobile and Sprint simply enabled the feature without FCC approval, but the regulatory agency has rejected AT&T’s request that the rival carriers be punished for doing so. In its own appeal to the FCC, Verizon said it takes the position that “neither the existing rules nor the AT&T Waiver Order require such a waiver” for the company to enable Wi-Fi calling, but it is applying for one before making the feature available “out of an abundance of caution.” Verizon already offers an app that lets its customers make use of Wi-Fi calling, but the waiver will allow the company to support the integrated Wi-Fi calling feature in iOS 9.
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