Andrew Bonwick
Vice President of Product Development at Relm Insurance
Madhav Sheth
CEO of Ai+ Smartphone
Stephen Rose
CEO Render Networks

Bharti Airtel has finally become a pan-India Voice over LTE (VoLTE) operator similar to Reliance Jio. According to the data available, Airtel VoLTE is now live across all the 22 telecom circles in the country. In addition, Airtel VoLTE is now available for use on more than 250 already launched smartphones. That said, almost all the smartphones launching these days are coming with Airtel VoLTE support out of the box. When we last reported, Airtel was offering VoLTE service in 21 telecom circles, except Jammu & Kashmir, but now, Airtel’s official website states “Airtel VoLTE is now live across all markets in India,” confirming the launch of the service in the remaining circle as well. Reliance Jio has announced 4G VoLTE services across all the 22 telecom circles becoming the first pan-India 4G VoLTE operator.

Airtel VoLTE Offers HD Voice Calls and Faster Call Connection
Bharti Airtel was the first operator in India to launch 4G services back in 2012, but in terms of VoLTE service launch, Reliance Jio managed to beat Airtel by a huge margin. To recall, Jio announced the commercial launch of 4G services in September 2016 which was followed by Bharti Airtel in September 2017. The first list of Airtel VoLTE supported smartphones was very limited, but over the last two years, the support list of devices has been expanded to more than 250.
Right now, smartphones from various brands like Samsung, Apple, Xiaomi, OnePlus, Asus, Gionee, Oppo, Vivo, Lava, Karbonn, Zen, Nokia, Tecno, Lephone, Celkon, Itel, Honor, Micromax, Infinix, Intex, Panasonic, Huawei, Spice, Sony, Motorola, Ziox and Realme. Even the newly launched phones like Realme XT, Xiaomi Redmi Note 8 series and OnePlus 7T series offer Airtel VoLTE support right out of the box.