Over
100 million voice calls are made every day on messaging app WhatsApp. The
company announced this in a blog post.
“For more than a year, people have used WhatsApp Calling to talk with friends
and family around the world. It's a great way to stay in touch, especially when
connecting with people in other countries, or when messages alone won't do.
Today, more than 100 million voice calls are made every day on WhatsApp -
that's over 1,100 calls a second! We're humbled that so many people have
found this feature useful, and we're committed to making it even better in the
months to come,” said the Facebook-owned WhatsApp in the post.
Celebrating the achievement, WhasApp CEO Jan Koum wrote on his Facebook page, “When
I first moved to the USA, making a phone call to friends and family that I left
in Ukraine was a frustrating process. You had to pick up a phone that was
connected to a wall and hope that the person you were calling was near their
phone on the other end.
“Years
later, mobile phones began to make this a bit easier, but switching SIM cards
and worrying about your mobile plan still made it challenging to call home.
Since the early days of WhatsApp, we've worked to tear down the boundaries that
stand between people staying in touch with their friends and family. A little
over a year ago, we made it possible to make calls using WhatsApp—for those
times when it's important to hear a voice on the other end of your phone.
Today, we're proud that people are making 100 million calls a day on WhatsApp!”
WhatsApp voice calling came to India in March last year. The app competes with
the likes of Skype and is said to be hurting the revenues of telecom companies
worldwide. There have been lot of resentment among the telecom industry
regarding these over-the-top (OTT) players.
Telcos have been demanding or parity with OTT players that provide
communications services such as Whatsapp and Skype, saying these apps which
provide similar services such as voice calling should also be brought under
regulation.
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