RELIANCE JIO 4G VoLTE

RELANCE JIO 4G VoLTE

     Santi Pada Chakraborty, Fellow of Institution of Engineers (India), Ex Superintending Engineer (Electrical). spchakra1324@gmail.com

  The population of India is 1.2 billion.  India is a young nation with 63% of its population under the age of 35 years. It has a fast growing digital audience with 800 million mobile connections and over 200 million internet users. Reliance thoroughly believes that India has potential to lead the world with its capabilities in innovation. Reliance envisages creation of a digital revolution in India. It has achieved 2.4 million subscribers at the end 2016. It has invested 1,7 lakh crores for net, devices and content and again will invest 30K crores coverage, capacity, speed.

Reliance Jio aims to provide rich digital services.

 Jio ensured that it will offer broadband networks, affordable smartphones. Availability of rich content and applications has enabled Jio to create an integrated business strategy from the very beginning, and today, Jio is capable of offering a unique combination of telecom, high speed data, digital commerce, media and payment.

On 5.9.16 Reliance Jio launched full-fledged 4G VoLTE service.

 Reliance Jio is giving broadband and digital service. It will offer digital service in remote villages and cities. Launching is relevant to ‘Digital India” scheme of the Government of India.

 Reliance is giving 4G VoLTE mobile set for entry level to ultra-premium user.  Reliance Jio launched full-fledged 4G service and it  is giving free apps for Rs15, 000 upto 31.3.17 like Reliance JioFi, Jio money,Jio cnemaJio TV, Jiochat, Jio clowd etc etc. 

 Reliance Jio is offering rich digital products like digital currency, digital commerce, digital education, digital healthcare, e-governance, smart cities, M2M and Internet of Things (IoT).

To  use a mobile on Jio there are two things to be  look out for — support for Jio bands, and support for 4G voice or VoLTE.

RJio operates its LTE network on three bands — 3,5 and 40. Out of these, band 40 (2300 MHz TDD) gives the best speed, but has the worst coverage, while band 5 (850 MHz) gives the best coverage, but offers speeds of only around 1.5-5 Mbps. Band 3 (1800 MHz) offers speeds of around 5-6 Mbps, compared to 10-70 Mbps on Band 40.

Most of the 4G phones being launched in India since June 2016 have support for all three bands, but you can still make sure before you buy the device. The band with the highest number of supported devices is band 3, followed by band 40. Band 5 has the least number of supported devices.

Similarly, devices built on Snapdragon’s more up-to-date chipsets such as 415, 430, 650, 652, 820, 821 and 212 have been built-in support for VoLTE.

Guide to help you work through the various terms such as VoLTE, LTE, 4G and the likes so that you know exactly what you’re getting into with the Reliance Jio service.

What is VoLTE?

VoLTE stands for Voice over LTE and is a new protocol for transmitting voice data over the LTE network. While 2G and 3G networks are circuit-switch based, 4G or LTE networks utilize Packet Switching. When a call is made over a 2G or a 3G network, a certain amount of network bandwidth is assigned to that call as a pipeline, which does not terminate till the call ends. On a VoLTE network, voice calls are broken up into packets of information, sent over the full data pipeline and then reconstructed at the receiver’s end. The result is that voice information can be carried over a higher bandwidth pipe, resulting in better call quality.

LTE and VoLTE is NOT the same.

It is essential to understand that LTE (also referred to as 4G-LTE) is a wholly IP-based communications protocol. Vodafone, Airtel and Idea allow data to go through the 4G band while sending calls calls through the 2G/3G band. LTE is the next generation data transmission protocol with higher two-way bandwidth; it is capable of only transmitting data. VoLTE is the way in which a voice call can be converted to digital packets and transmitted over the LTE network. In effect, VoLTE is a subset of the LTE technology. Jio is using VoLTE.

 Phone Compatibility

Reliance Jio’s network is purely LTE, and does not have any 2G and 3G bands and as such, calls made on this network will only be VoLTE based. Therefore, in order to use the feature, you must have a handset which is VoLTE enabled.  

 The VoLTE feature is separate and as such, phone must be VoLTE enabled. If you have an LTE enabled phone, you can use the data services of the Jio SIM. In order to make calls over the Reliance Jio network, you must either use the SIM in a VoLTE enabled phone or an LTE enabled phone on jio app available only on Android phone running Version 4.0 and up).

Turning Off Data.

Its probably not the best to turn off data on your cellphone if you’re on the Reliance Jio network. Since all traffic on the network is running over a data line, disabling data would effectively put the phone in the equivalent of airplane mode. It should be mentioned that Reliance has ensured  that data usage for voice calls will not be counted to the data allotment of the monthly plans.

HD Calling

HD Calling is being advertised as a major feature of the VoLTE. But calls are in HD only if the parties making phone call have both  Reliance’s Jio network. The call  to be made and receive from on a VoLTE enabled handset. You can still make and receive calls from other networks, but  calls quality will not be like from VoLTE call..

Reliance will offer the following

Affordable Devices: Jio has worked with all the leading device manufacturers of the world to ensure availability of 4G LTE smartphones across all price points – from ultra-premium models on one hand, to entry level models on the other.

Digital Communication: The application Jio 4G Voice brings the 4G communication suite to all smartphones. With its RCS (Rich Communication Services) features like enriched calling, Chat, File share and massaging, it redefines the calling and messaging experience. It also enables Jio’s voice and video call service on non-VoLTE smartphones.

Digital Currency: Jio envisions a new India which will use digital currency instead of paper money for a more secure and convenient way to transact. Jio Money, Jio’s digital currency and digital payments business, will play a crucial role in this by offering a platform for global, cheap and secure digital payments.

Jio Drive: Micro and small businesses will soon have access to cutting-edge cloud storage technologies which were once affordable to big companies only, giving them a new edge to compete on a global landscape. Jio Drive is an application that brings powerful cloud capabilities to every smartphone. Using Jio Drive, anyone can store, sync and share any content between their own devices and also with their friends.

Digital Education: Teachers and students from remote areas can connect with each other, crowd-source knowledge and adapt new age learning techniques and thus lift the level of education to a completely different plane.

Digital Healthcare: Expert medical advice would be available anytime, anywhere - with medical practitioners able to grow their practice without constraint, and provide quality of life to the cores people our country.

Digital Entertainment and social connectivity: Jio Chat is a powerful communication application that integrates chat, voice, video calling, conferencing, file sharing, photo sharing and much more. Jio Play enables users to watch HD TV anytime, anywhere on any device, from hundreds of channels, across categories and languages.

Jio Beats: It is a best digital music streaming service that gives instant access to millions of songs of playlists.

Jio Mags and Jio News: provide access to the most popular collection of magazines and news from leading publishing houses in  multiple languages.

Digital Entrepreneurship: Jio is building a powerful platform on which a range of rich digital products and services can be enabled - digital currency, digital commerce, digital education, digital healthcare, e-governance, Smart Cities, M2M and the Internet of Things. It does not matter whether these services are created by Jio itself, its partners or anyone globally.

Reliance is committed to the principles of Net Neutrality.
Reliance has invested Rs34000/-crores. Jio has biggest relaxed spectrum footprint. It will invest 3000 crore to improve.

 Reliance Jio has installed 2.5 lakh KM fibre-optic cable in 18,000  cities and more than 1 lakh villages. It aims that by   2018 it will provide service to 100 % people of the country. Jio has capability of giving service to 100 million wireless broadband and 20 million fiber-to-home customers. Reliance Jio has near 1/2 million sq. feet  cloud data center and multi-terabit capacity of international network .Already got 7.24 million subscribers at the end of 2016. Jio erected 1.2 lakh tower  in last March,16 and is going on erecting even  after March.

   Airtel is using  4G TDD-LTE, where Reliance 4G has launched 4G services at 1800 MHz band  using FDD-LTE technology overall leveraging  full two TDD- FDD  technologies. 

90% of India will be covered by March 2017 and will install 1 million JioFi (Wi-Fi) within middle of 2017.  JioFi 4G Wireless Hotspot retailer will enable free data, tether  or can be used in other devices.

 Pure 4G:-  Reliance service is pure 4G. It is utilizing 4G networks for voice call, massage, data and everything. Whereas Airtel, Vodafone, Idea still now using  2G, 3G for voice call and SMS. Their service is not pure 4G. They are only giving data in 4G.  In voice call and SMS automatically changed to 3G or 2G.  If call is done in Jio it become automatically VoLTE. This is pure 4G।  

Reliance JioFi:- Jio's 4G LTE Hotspot will start  Reliance JioFi in pure 4G service i.e. it will use 4G network for voice call, sending massages and data. 

SPEED:- If call is made from Jio it  automatically  become VoLTE. In pure 4G used in data so 4G Jio speed is 60Mpps, 70 Mpps and even 150Mbps. Call quality in high speed data is good.

Reliance Jio has license for launching pan-India 4G service. When implemented users will be able to downloaded 10 MB software in 2 seconds and 2GB HD movie in 1 min

DATA PLANE:-Data plan is cheaper than 3G network. IN addition  to that Jio  will provide unlimited free voice calls in lifetime, which can not be obtained from other. Moreover it is giving free SIM, daily 1GB data as new Years’ gift till 31.3.17.

  SIM:-SIM can be obtained with verification from Aadhar data and consumer’s finger print.