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> I never signed up for this and thus never provided any address.

It is an option in both Android and iOS. Android has a proprietary library that is put in there (I don't know anything past that for how Android handles it). If I were to guess, your network provider has your home address and used that? but e911 is a USA thing, I don't know Germany's equivalent laws.

I would assume the IPsec traffic is the WiFi Calling feature? But I don't know.




> If I were to guess, your network provider has your home address and used that?

they would have to know what access point is at my home too.

> but e911 is a USA thing, I don't know Germany's equivalent laws.

me neither. i know we have "eCall" for car emergencies but i am somewhat certain there are similar requirements here... the thing is i never seen this work without having a cellular connection too.

> I would assume the IPsec traffic is the WiFi Calling feature?

yes it is. i can see packets flowing when receiving a call for example... the destination/origin of these packets is into my providers network...




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