Last updated on December 28th, 2020 at 10:43 am
A much-hyped voice calling feature (VoIP) in the most famous and widely used WhatsApp has been activated for all users, condition is that you should have the latest version of WhatsApp on your phone.
The feature is available to all applications like Android, iOS, Windows, and Blackberry phones.
You believe that making VoIP calls is free but empirically it is proved that voice over internet protocol (VoIP) calls consume approx 300KB per minute or 18 MB per hour. Hence with this approximation, you can make almost 3400 minutes voice calls if you have loaded a 1GB data plan.
In the Indian telecom market, 1GB 3G/4G data plan used to costs from Rs 170 to Rs 250 but now almost all plans offer unlimited free voice calls and 1GB of 4G data at the price of approx Rs 1 so now making a voice calls on WhatsApp cost nothing, almost negligible. This calculation doesn’t include the data which is consumed by the app while running continuously in background.
You will be happy with this meager call charges but the voice quality in this feature depends on the network you use. You may enjoy voice call comfortably in 3G or 4G or WiFi network but you may feel bad in 2G network.
Other instant messaging apps like Viber, Facebook Messenger, Google Hangouts, Line, Nimbuzz, and Skype, etc have voice calling features but this feature in WhatsApp will impact much more because WhatsApp is the most used app in India and has a much higher user base as compared to other apps.
One more interesting observation is that each voice calling featured app consumes different data, Skype uses much more data while Facebook messenger uses the least data for voice calls. WhatsApp stands just below Skype on the data usage ladder.
Indian Mobile operators may again cry for their revenue because of this calling feature in WhatsApp which is going to affect sell of their voice packs but they have at least one reason to calm, the consumption of their 3G data pack may increase.
Have you enjoyed voice calling feature in your WhatsApp yet !!
Have you considered about the opposite party? It should be 5p/m * 2 except the standby data
Calculation is done for calling party only.
What about app running in background to function voip on whatsapp