Samsung to get Faiba VoLTE support in March

Samsung Smartphones to Get Faiba 4G VoLTE Support After Valentine’s

After a colourful launch with a lot of buzz, Faiba 4G has not reached the milestone everyone hoped it would. The service has been around for quite some time now but the biggest hurdle for the company has been lack of support for Band 28 (700MHz). Very few phones support the Band and even those that do, the respective manufacturers have to push out an OTA (Over the Air) update in order for Faiba 4G to work perfectly.

At launch, only Nokia smartphones were ready to work flawlessly on the network, others like Lenovo (Motorola), Samsung, TECNO and Infinix were yet to receive support for this Band. Well, the wait for Samsung users is about to end, albeit in March this year.

Samsung Electronics East Africa revealed that they have been working with Jamii Telecommunications Limited (JTL), the company behind Faiba 4G in testing their compatible phones to work on the network. Samsung said that they will be pushing an OTA update to their compatible smartphones, starting with the J-Pro series of 2017 going upwards, enabling their phones to work on Faiba 4G VoLTE network.

We did not get an exact list of smartphones from Samsung, but from our list of Phones that pack Band 28, here are Samsung smartphones that might be getting said OTA update in March:

Samsung Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge
Samsung Galaxy S8 and S8+
Samsung Galaxy Note 5, Note FE and Note 8
Samsung Galaxy A5 (2016 models & 2017 models) and A7 (2016 models & 2017 models)
Samsung Galaxy J7 Pro, J7 (2017), J5 Prime, J2, J2 Prime
This is encouraging to Samsung users and we hope that other manufacturers will also be updating their smartphones soon to support Faiba 4G network.

Courtesy of @Techweez

Watu wa Xiaomi tukae wapi :(:frowning:

What I don’t understand is why the manufactured the phones with the VoLTE hardware capability but disabled it in software in some markets.

Like what was the point? Si hiyo feature ingekuwa ata kama haitumiki? Wanajipea kazi mingi ya bure.

sometimes ni kusdiscourage grey imports

Ohh I see now. So now that we have a need for VoLTE here, they enable it on our devices to discourage us from bringing in grey imports from regions where it was enabled. Makes sense.

S8 is yet to receive Oreo Nokia 8 is already on 8.1 f**k touchwiz [ATTACH=full]153082[/ATTACH]

Why would they update their customers to a beta and expect them to use it as their daily driver? Ama it’s an opt-in beta program?

It’s almost very stable it’s just a precaution so that u don’t sue them just in case. And to receive the beta ota update u have to request them so si ati wataupdate kama hujui

That is the Beta version.
Who wants an OS with bugs???

Boss mbona unadownload beta version. Si ungengojea tu original version itoke alafu you update.

stable version

I’ve been using it for a month now na sina any issues a beta version from OEM is not same as beta from XDA developers I have an option to revert back to 7.1 but am satisfied

Mbona yangu inakatalia 8.0 Bana??[ATTACH=full]153931[/ATTACH]