Bharti Airtel (“Airtel”), India’s leading telecommunications services provider, today announced that over 200 4G smartphones now support its Voice over LTE (VoLTE) services enabling customers to experience HD quality voice calling and superfast data on a wide range of smartphones on Airtel’s nationwide 4G network.Airtel’s strong 4G presence across the country offers seamless connectivity for VoLTE services and enables customers to experience parallel sessions of seamless voice calling and superfast data.

All popular 4G smartphones now come shipped with 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.

Airtel has also been consistently ramping up its 4G capacity across the country to serve the fast growing customer demand for high-speed data. 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:

• Check mobile device compatibility by logging on to www.airtel.in/volte
• Upgrade the mobile device’s operating software to the latest version that supports VoLTE. This update is provided by the handset manufacturer.
• Now, enable VoLTE by following the instructions on www.airtel.in/volte-switch

Customers with Dual-SIM handsets have to ensure that the Airtel 4G SIM has been inserted in the data SIM slot/slot 1 and network mode has been set as “4G/3G/2G (Auto)”.