Users will never again have to pay to employ WhatsApp,Facebook’s messaging serviceWhatsApp, the Facebook-owned messaging service, and is to drop its token $1-a-year subscription to travel fully free for every user,the company’s chief executive has announced.
Speaking at the DLD conference in Bavaria, Jan Koum confirmed that the $0.99 annual fee will be scrapped, and effective immediately. Previously,WhatsApp had been free for the first year, with the fee charged for every subsequent year. Long-term users of the iOS version were given free employ for life, or as a thanks for paying a fee to download the app when it had a one-off charge.
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Source: theguardian.com