Is your smartphone not compatible with free mobile volte?The operator explains and re -affiles the hot potato to manufacturers

If your phone does not have the Volte option visibly, contact the manufacturer, an update is essential, this is the message from Free Mobile.Explanation.

Currently in public beta, volte allows some Free Mobile subscribers to no longer switch to 3G during a call but also to use the Voice and Data 4G services simultaneously with better sound quality.If the test is conclusive for many, some will have to wait a bit before enjoying it.This is the case for package subscribers at € 2 and free pro but not only.The operator announces today that subscribers in the Free Series Package do not have it, only subscribers to the package at € 19.99/month are entitled to it.In white areas, it will also be necessary to be connected to a antenna managed by Free, the other sites will be affected later, without more precision.

It also remains that a number of smartphones are not currently compatible with the voice on 4G of Free Mobile, in the first place the models of Samsung.On October 8, the operator first justified himself by ensuring that he had sent the Volte parameters upstream to Samsung and this at the same time as to the other brands, enough to contest at the same time the affirmations of the France of the giantKorean.

Free Mobile volte compatible with all smartphones supporting it

In a concern for transparency and faced with many misunderstandings, Free Mobile now judges good to explain the why of how: “At Free, our volte is compatible with all the phones that support the service, and we have allowed manufacturerswho wanted to carry out tests for several months.Some mobile manufacturers voluntarily deactivate the default volte in their mobiles for SIM/networks whose service they have not yet tested.When this is the case, the volte option of the parameters is hidden, and the user cannot activate it.They then ask the operator to be able to carry out tests for updating their phones to make the option visible.Some have chosen to activate the volte on all their models, others on no model already released, and finally others are between the two ".In other words, updates to phones that require it must be carried out by manufacturers."If your phone does not have the visible volte option, get closer to him," said the operator.The message has passed.