Jio announces Voice, Video over Wi-Fi calling across India

Jio on Wednesday anunced nationwide launch of its Voice and Video over Wi-Fi calling service. Jio says it has been testing this service over past few months in order "to provide a robust experience to every customer at launch." anuncement comes weeks after Bharti Airtel expanded its Wi-Fi calling service over five to more than five Indian cities. Jio promises Wi-Fi Calling will be enabled pan-India between January 7 to January 16, 2020. Here's something you might want to kw about Jio's Wi-Fi calling service.

Jio has clarified some of main differentiators that users need to keep in mind. Jio customers can use any Wi-Fi network for Jio Wi-Fi calling. Jio has also promised that voice and video calls will 'seamlessly' switch-over between VoLTE and Wi-Fi. Jio claims its Wi-Fi calling service works on compatible handsets However, list of smartphones supporting Wi-Fi calling at moment happens to be pretty limited. In what could be good news, Jio customers can also make Video over Wi-Fi calls, at ditional cost, apparently.

"At Jio, we are constantly invating to enhance customer experience or solve ir problems. At this juncture, when an aver Jio consumer uses over 900 minutes of voice calls every month, and at a growing base of consumers, launch of Jio Wi-Fi Calling will furr enhance every Jio consumer’s voice-calling experience, which is alrey a benchmark for industry with India’s-first all VoLTE network," said Akash Ambani, Director, Jio.

RE | How to enable Airtel Wi-Fi calling

How to enable Jio Wi-Fi calling

1. If your device is compatible, go to Settings and switch Wi-Fi calling ON.
2. n, connect to a Wi-Fi network
3. You can have both VoLTE and Wi-Fi Calling switched on simultaneously

In related news, 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. 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.