WhatsApp To Become Completely Free

[Bambino]

For those who use it, no more subscription fees, apparently.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/whatsapp-phase-out-fees_569cf614e4b0778f46f9fbe7

[Bambino]

Had never heard of Line before @jonsie. Just took a look at it on the Play Store. Is it like Skype? It says it requires Android. I presume that would make it useless if you wanted to contact someone with an iPhone.

[jonsie]

Very similar to Skype but so much better in my opinion. It's available on any platform and probably has more users than Skype throughout the world. It is readily available on iTunes,  my wife has an iphone and we talk to each other every day on Line.

https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/line/id443904275?mt=8

[MI5]

More common elsewhere than in the Western World.

[ComaChameleon]

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@MI5 wrote:

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It was always completely free on iOS but only free for the first 12 months on Android.

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It once was free on iOS, my WA says "lifelong service" and the one from my mom (has an iPhone too) says "until xx.02.2017" (it's still like that)

First sites on FB report that many users had "lifelong" now too, but now it changed back to a date. So they're not sure if it'll be free anymore 😕

[MI5]

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@ComaChameleon wrote:

First sites on FB report that many users had "lifelong" now too, but now it changed back to a date. So they're not sure if it'll be free anymore 😕

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I had this tonight !

I got a notification saying Whatsapp was now free and my expiry was "lifelong" then 10 mins later another notification reverting back to my original date !!

[ComaChameleon]

I now read that NEW accounts will be free..

Would be unfair to people who got it after mid 2013.

Guess we have to wait and see.

[Curr946]

I've always had lifetime listed

[MI5]

I had another notification rhis morning for lifetime

[jonsie]

I got the lifetime notification last night even though I've never paid in all these years

[Curr946]

you know you've posted your number up