Kolkata, October 3, 2018: Bharti Airtel (Airtel), India’s leading telecommunications service provider, today announced the launch of its Voice over LTE (VoLTE) services across Bengal and Sikkim. Airtel VoLTE, which works over 4G, will enable customers across the two states to enjoy HD quality voice calls with faster call set up time. Customers can call any mobile, landline network using Airtel VoLTE.
Airtel’s strong 4G presence across Bengal and Sikkim will enable seamless connectivity for VoLTE services, offering customers parallel sessions of seamless voice calling and superfast data. Airtel has also been consistently ramping up its 4G capacity in both the states to serve the fast growing customer demand for high-speed data.
Over 200 4G smartphones now support Airtel VoLTE, enabling customers to experience HD quality voice calling and superfast data on a wide range of smartphones on Airtel’s nationwide 4G network. All popular 4G smartphones are now shipped with default Airtel VoLTE support. Users of the bestselling 4G smartphones from major brands like Oppo, Vivo, Apple, Samsung, OnePlus, Nokia, Panasonic, Xiaomi, Karbonn, Lava and Panasonic can now converse on the HD quality voice calling offered on Airtel VoLTE.
Sameer Anjaria, CEO, West Bengal & Odisha, Bharti Airtel said, “We are delighted to extend our VoLTE footprint to Bengal and Sikkim, complementing our world class 4G network, VoLTE will add to customer’s experience and enable them to make the most of their smartphone.”
There will be no additional data charges for VoLTE and calls will be billed as per existing plan or pack benefits. In case of non-availability of 4G network, Airtel VoLTE calls automatically fall back on 3G/2G network to ensure that customers continue to stay connected at all times. Customers can get started on Airtel VoLTE services by following a few quick steps:
Customers with Dual-SIM handsets have to ensure that the Airtel 4G USIM has been inserted in the data SIM slot 1 and network mode has been set as “4G/3G/2G (Auto)”.
About Bharti Airtel Limited:
Bharti Airtel Limited is a leading global telecommunications company with operations in 16 countries across Asia and
Africa. Headquartered in New Delhi, India, the company ranks amongst the top 3 mobile service providers globally in
terms of subscribers. In India, the company's product offerings include 2G, 3G and 4G wireless services, mobile
commerce, fixed line services, high speed home broadband, DTH, enterprise services including national &
international long distance services to carriers. In the rest of the geographies, it offers 2G, 3G, 4G wireless
services and mobile commerce. Bharti Airtel had over 456 million customers across its operations at the end of June
2018. To know more please visit, www.airtel.in