WhatsApp Goes Free in India; Removes the Yearly Subscription

While it’s not too much to pay $1 for using something like WhatsApp which has 600 million subscribers, Neeraj Arora, Vice-President of WhatsApp, said that WhatsApp is not enforcing the fee in India as it is still not easy to pay for it due to multiple ecosystem and low penetration of payment models.

WhatsApp Goes Free for India

This is incredible news for Indian users as we are first on WhatsApp and then on anywhere else. I have knows businesses running on WhatsApp where the owner and employee communicate with each other instead of choosing a costly text plan. WhatsApp was recently acquired by Facebook for $19-billion.

That said, he also said that WhatsApp is also working with Telecoms to make data consumed by WhatsApp is not charged. I am guessing WhatsApp will keep the same strategy for all developing countries with similar problems.

Via The Hindu | Via Windows Central

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