Airtel to be the second telecom industry in India to introduce VoLTE

Reliance Jio since its entrance in the market has changed the way telecom industries functioned in India. Jio Telecom brought a revolutionary change in the market by introducing cheap 4G data offers and 4G VoLTE services. As Jio took over the market, other companies are trying their best to keep their customers if not getting new ones. Airtel has been working on introducing VoLTE to its users for a long time now. The company is now set to launch the VoLTE services starting from Mumbai. With the introduction of VoLTE, Airtel will provide free VoLTE calls for its customers. This will make Airtel the second network to introduce VoLTE in India after Jio.

It has been reported by Economic Times that Airtel will start rolling out the VoLTE services in Mumbai and later will introduce in Delhi and Kolkata. The business news paper also reported that customers in Mumbai and Kolkata will receive messages to activate VoLTE calls on their phones.

What is VoLTE?

VoLTE is a short form for Voice over LTE which clearly means the calls made from this type of network will connect via the 4G or LTE services. Before the introduction of VoLTE, mobile networks used 3G or 4G for data and 2G connection for making calls. The new VoLTE service gives much better and clearer call experience when compared to the calls made via 2G networks.

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VoLTE uses special hardware which may not be present in many of the old phones. However, most of the smartphones launched after the introduction of Jio support 4G VoLTE. There are also few feature phones which support the VoLTE services for making good quality phone calls.

Jio recently launched the Jio feature phone which comes at a cost of Rs. 1500 that is refundable after 3years. To concur this Airtel is also planning to introduce its own VoLTE feature phone which will support free VoLTE calls.