WhatsApp is completely free from today

Were the many who They tried to skip that euro that WhatsApp has cost and that they were looking for them so as not to pay for a service that was looking for a way to monetize itself to collect some kind of benefit with those millions of people who have made it their favorite app for communicating with friends or family. A WhatsApp that was bought by Facebook two years ago and that led to it being updated appropriately to have new features such as voice calls or the synchronization of all contacts, call history and files downloaded through Google Drive. A time when we have seen WhatsApp change a lot, but it is also found with competitors who are doing very well, as is the case with Telegram.

With about 1.000 million users worldwide, from today WhatsApp becomes completely free for everyone. From the blog on its website WhatsApp has announced it and in this way withdraws that annual subscription that has been present for years so that users pay a fee after their first free year. In this way, WhatsApp is completely free and announces good news that will eliminate any trace of bad publicity received recently after the veto carried out against Telegram, when it blocked direct URLs to this totally free messaging app, as it is now. the one acquired at the time by Mark Zuckerberg.

WhatsApp totally free

The truth is that that almost euro knew little due to having an app that we have been using it daily without stopping and that it has helped us for many tasks, whether to create a group for co-workers or share images with a family member who is on the other side of the world.

WhatsApp comments from its statement on its blog that there were many users who did not have access to a debit card or credit and therefore were concerned about losing access to their friends or family after the first year of use. So, for the next few weeks, WhatsApp will withdraw the subscriptions to the different versions of its app and will no longer charge the card for the service.

How will you monetize the service?

The next question one asks is how they will monetize the app, to which WhatsApp itself answers that they will not introduce advertising or anything that can tarnish the user experience that anyone gets.

Starting this year, WhatsApp will start with the tools test that will allow you to use the app to communicate with companies and organizations with which you want to be in contact. One of the examples is the way it could change when a user has to contact their bank to solve a problem with a certain transaction or with a travel agency when they had certain handicaps with tickets to a certain destination.

Ultimately, it will be offer new ways of communication with services and companies that we usually use daily with new tools but that the daily experience we get from WhatsApp does not influence anything.

They do well not to stand still, since Telegram has been pushing very hard and each time it is being transformed into a service that follows the basic rules of text message communication but is at another level right now. It does not have the popularity of WhatsApp but it is preparing everything to be its real replacement. For this reason, WhatsApp tries to offer a better service by being totally free and what these new tools will be to put us in contact with companies and organizations.

Some novelties that join those rumors about video calls That they will soon implement and that they are forcing other services to put the batteries, as it happens to them to now offer WhatsApp completely free of charge before the rush that Telegram is making.