Airtel VoLTE Goes Live in 21 Markets Across India, Compatible Smartphone List Grows Bigger

Bharti Airtel, which launched its VoLTE service back in September 2017 is now providing the service in 21 telecom markets. At the moment, Airtel is not providing the Voice over LTE service only in Jammu Kashmir, but it’s expected to make the service available in the said circle too very soon. Very recently, Airtel rolled out the service in Himachal Pradesh circle which took the service availability to 21 circles from the earlier 20 circles list. In comparison, Vodafone VoLTE service is available in 18 telecom circles and Idea Cellular’s VoLTE is available in 20 circles, excluding New Delhi and Kolkata. Furthermore, Airtel VoLTE is now supported on 198 smartphones, including the newly launched devices like the OnePlus 6T, Honor 8X and others.

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Airtel Might Become Pan-India VoLTE Operator by the End of 2018

At the moment, Reliance Jio is the only pan-India VoLTE telecom service provider in the country because the Mukesh Ambani-owned telco operates voice calls only on VoLTE. Notably, Jio is the alone LTE-only operator in India. Airtel is next to Jio because it offers 4G services in all the 22 telecom circles, but when the 4G network is not available, the network will fall back to 3G and 2G. Airtel might launch VoLTE services in Jammu Kashmir by the end of 2018 to become pan-India VoLTE operator by the end of 2018.

Airtel Beats Vodafone in the VoLTE Rollout

Back in August this year, Airtel VoLTE was available only in 12 telecom circles, but now, it has been live in 21 circles, comfortably beating Vodafone which is still providing VoLTE in 18 circles. On the other hand, Idea Cellular has its VoLTE service available for users in 20 circles except Kolkata and New Delhi.