Reliance Jio Launches Voice Over WiFi Calling Service
Reliance Jio on Wednesday launched
voice and video calling over WiFi service that will allow customers to switch
seamlessly from LTE to WiFi-based calling when they are at home or office. Reliance
Jio has rolled out voice over WiFi (VoWiFi) calling service for its subscribers
in multiple circles. The new facility will let Reliance Jio customers continue
making voice and video calls using a WiFi network, instead of Jio VoLTE
network. Further, calls would seamlessly switch-over between Wi-Fi and VoLTE.
According to the company, customers will be able to access any Wi-Fi for Jio’s
Wi-Fi calling at no additional cost.
Benefits Of Jio Wi-Fi Calling
- Customers can use any Wi-Fi network for Jio Wi-Fi-calling
- The voice and video calls will seamlessly switch-over between VoLTE and Wi-Fi to provide an enhanced voice/video-calling experience
- Jio Wi-Fi calling works on the largest ecosystem of handsets
- Jio customers can also make Video over Wi-Fi calls
- And all of this comes at no additional cost!
Enable Jio Wi-Fi calling
You need to enable the Wi-Fi calling
aka voice-over-Wi-Fi (VoWiFi) on your device to avail the new service. To do
this, you need to first connect to a Wi-Fi network, and then visit the Settings
menu of your phone. Here, depending on the make of the phone, you'll have to
find the Wi-Fi Calling or Wi-Fi calls option, and enable it.
To enable Jio Wi-Fi Calling, a step-by-step guide has been made available on Jio.com/wificalling.Jio Wi-Fi Calling will be enabled pan-India between 7th and 16th January, 2020
Pointing out to the average duration
of 900 minutes of voice calls in a month, Akash Ambani, Director, Reliance Jio
Infocomm, said, “With a growing base of consumers, the launch of Jio Wi-Fi
Calling will further enhance every Jio consumer’s voice-calling experience,
which is already a benchmark for the industry with India’s-first all VoLTE
network.”
The VoWiFi service enables the
customers, and service providers to use private wireless LANs (WLANs), home
WiFi networks and public WiFi hotspot to connect calls to other mobile
networks. The efforts are expected to benefit the areas that have low
connectivity and cellular signal.
With this, customers can easily make and receive calls over a WiFi network on their existing Jio phone number even if the data is turned off. The feature was introduced by Airtel in December 2019 which is currently active in six states.
