Andrew Bonwick
Vice President of Product Development at Relm Insurance
Madhav Sheth
CEO of Ai+ Smartphone
Varun Kashyap & Sridevi Reddy
Co-Founders, Zithara.ai
Transforming Indian Offline Retail and Customer Engagement Using AI

When it comes to network technologies, VoWi-Fi is the hottest tech in town. All the network operators are racing to get their subscribers this new technology. Similar to how VoLTE brought a lot of good improvements for the callers, Voice over Wi-Fi or referred to as Wi-Fi calling will do the same for the users. Now the two telecom operators who are doing VoWi-Fi currently in India are Bharti Airtel and Reliance Jio, apart from BSNL. Even between these two operators, Bharti Airtel seems to be having the lead in rolling out Voice Over Wi-Fi to maximum areas first. In a new release, Bharti Airtel has noted the areas where it has rolled out VoWi-Fi. The first area where VoWi-Fi was launched was in the national capital, New Delhi and NCR. Now, Bharti Airtel has announced that it has launched its service in other areas as well which include Mumbai, Kolkata, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, and Tamil Nadu.

Airtel VoWi-Fi Compatible Devices
Bharti Airtel has noted about VoWi-Fi technology saying, “Airtel Wi-Fi Calling’ leverages cutting edge technology to enhance the indoor voice calling experience for Airtel smartphone customers. The innovative service uses Wi-Fi networks to create a dedicated channel for voice calls and allows customers to make telco-grade calls to any network. This dramatically improves the customer experience as one can seamlessly switch to Airtel Wi-Fi Calling.” The telco has also noted that the feature will not require any external application and can be configured on the device itself depending on whether or not the feature is supported for that particular smartphone at the moment.
To configure, VoWi-Fi on your phone, the subscribers will first have to check whether or not their device is eligible for Airtel VoWi-Fi. The subscribers will be able to check smartphone compatibility on the Airtel official website. For your ease, it is worth knowing that the devices supported for VoWi-Fi currently include all iPhone models starting 6S and above, Redmi K20, Redmi K20 Pro and Poco F1, Samsung 6, A10s, On6, S10, S10+, S10e, M20 and all OnePlus 6 and all OnePlus 7 devices.