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Thanks to WhatsApp you can call for free soon
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Your mobile bill could fall dramatically in 2015: Then you can make calls with WhatsApp

WhatsApp makes it possible in 2015: make free calls with your smartphone! Delight with the customer - horror at the network providers.

One or the other may now think, "Oh wow, talk on the phone, what an innovation." The advantage of telephoning with WhatsApp is but: No connection costs from the network provider more!

WhatsApp has around 600 million users worldwide, making it a thorn in the side of mobile service providers. Already the SMS has almost replaced the messaging service. Since 2010, the SMS revenue of mobile operators has fallen drastically because of WhatsApp, Threema and Co. (from 2.88 billion euros to 1.6 billion euros).

Now WhatsApp also plans to introduce a telephone function.

Originally it was planned that this telephone function will be introduced in the second quarter of 2014. However, the start was postponed to 2015 due to technical problems. This was announced by WhatsApp CEO Jan Koum.

With WhatsApp, users would be able to make calls via their normal data connection - not only in the strong LTE network, but also via UMTS and Edge.

Of course, then the data consumption would increase with the user - but if you save the Gesprächsflat the provider, you can still save money. And with a WLAN connection, the problem with the mobile data consumption is handled.

Other messenger services already have a phone function (Skype for example), which has been little used. The data consumption was just too high, the voice quality too low at the same time. WhatsApp wants to prevent both: Koum promises in an interview with the FOCUS that his technique aims at the lowest possible data consumption with high quality - and that's exactly the reason why the development of the new feature takes so long.

But now the goal seems as good as achieved. We are curious if the new function really pays off.

At the same time, we recall the gentle data protection regulations at WhatsApp. We would not do banking business or the like about the new function ...

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