WhatsApp drops subscription fee to become fully free
by Alex Hern from on (#111P0)
Users will never again have to pay to use WhatsApp, Facebook's messaging service
WhatsApp, the Facebook-owned messaging service, is to drop its token $1-a-year subscription to go 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, 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 use for life, as a thanks for paying a fee to download the app when it had a one-off charge.
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