However, the calls felt like free international phone calls, which is exactly what they were. Personally I found it to load faster than Skype, which is a real bonus. Indeed, the number of messages sent on WhatsApp alone each day is 50 per higher than global SMS volumes.ĭespite all that potential, we - and the people we spoke to - found the quality of calls to be fine, but not on the same level as dedicated calling apps like Viber. (The service may have 800 million monthly users, but that doesn’t mean global domination, as I explained earlier this week.) WhatsApp is one of a number of messaging apps to ravage telco’s SMS revenues after collecting hundreds of millions of downloads worldwide. WhatsApp’s new feature has the potential to cause serious headaches for operators in markets where the messaging app is popular, such India and chunks of the Middle East, Europe and Latin America.
Already live to all users on Android, free calls are slowly rolling out to Apple device owners - but TechCrunch managed to sneak in early and road-test the feature today.
That’s our early take on the free calls feature that the Facebook-owned service began introducing to its iOS app this week. WhatsApp’s new voice calling feature for iOS is decent quality and easy to use, but the experience doesn’t beat dedicated VoIP apps for clarity.
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