Idea Cellular to launch VoLTE in all 4G circles by March

NEW DELHI: Aditya Birla group's Idea Cellular said that it will launch VoLTE services for customers in all of its 4G Circles by March 2017.

Telecom operator's ’s 4G services, are presently available across 11 existing telecom service areas. The company is now gearing to launch its 4G LTE services in its 9 new 4G telecom service areas and 3G services in Bihar and Rajasthan, by March 2017, thereby making Idea broadband services available pan India.

The company already offers 3G services across 21 telecom services areas on its own spectrum and in partnership. Over the last one year, the company has more than doubled its mobile broadband network on 3G/4G platform, and now covers over 50% of India’s population.

Telco’s mobile broadband data services are currently available to nearly 500 million Indians across nearly 100,000 towns and villages.

Post the October 2016 spectrum auction, Idea Cellular has further enhanced its spectrum portfolio, sufficient to take care of the majority of its future capacity requirements, specifically in its 15 leadership markets.

The company intends to launch 2nd mobile broadband carriers on 1800 MHz in 7 leadership markets (where Idea is No.1 or No.2) and 2300 MHz carriers in its 3 leading markets, while continuing to expand its 3G 900 MHz services in Maharashtra & Goa, and Madhya Pradesh & Chhattisgarh, over the next financial year. It also possesses 2500 MHz 4G LTE carriers across 16 telecom service areas (the popular 4G LTE capacity spectrum band in China) to expand capacity whenever needed.