The messaging application is strongly committed to communication But not only through free messages and instant, but also through phone calls. Something that has been made clear after the announcement to include this function directly in the application, but also through its usual alliances with the telephone operating companies with which It has been collaborating in different regions of the planet for several years now.
Now WhatsApp launches a new alliance with another operator, this time in Europe. Specifically, it is the company E-Plus that operates in Germany. A company that now sells prepaid SIM cards capable of giving unlimited service to WhatsApp beyond exceed your data limit A curious alliance that offers users the most basic and generally used tool on a smartphone as is WhatsApp, plus Internet data to navigate or use other apps
In this way, and for only 10 euros, users of E-Plus may use an amount of 600 credits for either call for phone, send SMS text messages or consume MB of Internet while browsing or using applications .Issues that do not affect the use of WhatsApp, which runs totally independiente, even when the credit of those 10 initial euros has run out A point in favor of not ending up incommunicado even if the money does run out.
However, now there is a doubt about how the calls that are about to arrive will be adapted to the messaging service. And it is that, if we listen to the rumors, it will be a free service over the Internet. Something that consumes quite a few MB of data rates and that the operators might not take too well. Even more so if, as in the case of Germany, WhatsApp is installed on 90 percent of the country's phones , with more than 30 million of users connected to the same communication tool.
In any case, this is not the first alliance of this type that WhatsApp has carried out. It has already done so in Hong Kong and in India with other large operators in these regions. Agreements that not only ensured that a greater number of users had this application within their reach, but also made things easier to bring the Internet to a large audience and in a much more economical and viable way than a contract to use. Points that have only increased the popularity of WhatsApp and allowed it to grow in these countries where other applications already had the approval of users.
A strategy that could continue to be developed in Europe if the results with E-Plus are satisfactory. Something that only time will tell. Even more so while waiting for the long-awaited calls, a function that can give users a lot of play but silver a major inconvenience for mobile operatorsWe won't have to wait long to see how they handle these issues, as calls from WhatsApp are expected to land beforearrives. summer
