Published 13:20 IST, December 25th 2019

Airtel Wi-Fi Calling service now available in five new telecom circles

Bharti Airtel has expanded its Wi-Fi calling service to five new circles across the country. Here is the list of brands and smartphones supporting Airtel VoWiFi

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Bharti Airtel has expanded its Wi-Fi calling service to five new circles across country. As a result of this expansion, Airtel’s Wi-Fi calling facility is w available across Mumbai, Tamil Nu, Kolkata, Karnataka, Andhra Presh and Delhi-NCR.

Recently, Bharti Airtel introduced Voice over Wi-Fi (VoWiFi) calling service in select telecom circles across country. After initial anuncement, service — formally kwn as Airtel’s Wi-Fi Calling, was rolled out in Delhi-NCR region.

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Subsequently, Airtel in India anunced expansion of its VoWiFi service to five new telecom circles — namely, Tamil Nu, Andhra Presh, Mumbai, Kolkata and Karnataka. With this move, Airtel is looking to expand its at-home calling facility across major Indian cities and telecom circles.

However, list of smartphone supporting Wi-Fi calling at moment happens to be pretty limited.

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In its statement, here is what Bharti Airtel h to say while anuncing rollout of Airtel Wi-Fi Calling to five new telecom circles:

"Airtel Wi-Fi Calling levers cutting edge techlogy to enhance indoor voice calling experience for Airtel smartphone customers. service uses Wi-Fi networks to create a dedicated channel for voice calls and allows customers to make telco-gre calls to any network. This dramatically improves customer experience as one can seamlessly switch to Airtel Wi-Fi Calling."

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RE | Airtel Wi-Fi calling w available in Delhi NCR, here are all details

In case you are using Airtel’s home broband and Wi-Fi service, all you need to do is to visit Airtel Wi-Fi Calling sub-domain in order to check your device’s eligibility.

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Airtel says that Wi-Fi Calling does t require any app and can be configured on smartphone by following steps mentioned below:

1. Check smartphone compatibility on airtel.in/wifi-calling

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2. Upgre device operating software to latest version that supports Wi-Fi Calling

3. Go to Settings on your mobile phone and Switch On Wi-Fi Calling 

4. Keep VoLTE switched on 

Following is list of brands and smartphones supporting ‘Airtel Wi-Fi Calling’

-- Apple: All iPhone models starting 6s and above
-- Xiaomi: Redmi K20, Redmi K20 Pro & POCO F1
-- Samsung: J6, A10s, On6, S10, S10+, S10e, M20
-- OnePlus: All OnePlus 7 and 6 series devices

13:20 IST, December 25th 2019