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Does VoLTE conflict with net neutrality?

Media | 04/10/2015 8:23 pm EDT

Voice-over-LTE (VoLTE) had a small-scale launch in Canada recently, with Rogers Communications Inc. making the service that allows carriers to transmit voice calls on the same networks as data available to a portion of its customers. As the technology grows and becomes more widely available around the world, questions about how it will coexist — or conflict — with net-neutrality laws and principles are on the radar for both net-neutrality advocates and wireless carriers. According to Jeremy Gillula, a technologist with the U.S.-based advocacy group Electronic Frontier Foundation,...