WhatsApp Messenger for mobile to add voice calls

WhatsApp, the world largest mobile messaging, to add customer service call 450 million, the new challenge to operators of communications network only a few days after it was bought by Facebook $ 19 billion.

Com Jan Executive Director said that its users WhatsApp authority calls in the second quarter, just as they can now text messages, extending the call for service to help users hit 1 billion.

"We are with the mission that people should be able to stay connected anywhere with less cost," said Kum to the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on Monday.

WhatsApp and competitors such as weichat from China and South Korea "KakaoTalk Viber for Israel, has hit a hole in the income of operators in recent years to provide an alternative to SMS.

News that the stronger the voice service will be considered as a concern for telecom operators in the world, which got about 120 $ billion text messaging last year, according to market researcher ovum.

Add free calls another Council threatens to spin operators, though one that has declined in recent years as the twist rates operators focus on mobile data instead of the application.

Since the advent of the sound of Skype now belong to Microsoft online there is ten years and the rise of Internet giants like Google, patterns of communication become accustomed to facing opponents who services piggyback on their networks, but complain that they are not subject to national rules.

He said mats granrid, President and CEO of Swedish mobile operator Tele2, was pleased to work as a partner with the likes of WhatsApp, because the extra traffic they generate, but shares of other network operators must live under the national regulatory systems are often strict, while Internet companies free to act as they wish.

He called the European industry executives again on Monday for the organizers to ensure equal opportunities.

"They (Internet business)" must be organized a little bit more, we need to organize a little bit less, "said Joe Lander, who heads the Russian mobile operator fimbilkom.

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, who is scheduled to speak at the Mobile World Congress at 1700 GMT on Monday, both com threw themselves as partners in the telecom sector, competitors operators only.

Com announced Monday a partnership with E-Plus, the German subsidiary of the Dutch group KPN, which it will launch mobile service brands WhatsApp in Germany.

"We are working with companies in the markets value to end users.

During this time should Zuckerberg dinner with heads of several mobile operators high on Monday, including the CEO of Vodafone Vittorio Colao.

Asked for his reaction to the Facebook status with WhatsApp, Colao said he did not understand how the acquisition of important actors from the Internet can move in a time where European network operators have faced scrutiny from competition regulators.

Colao said on the sidelines of the Conference that "these types of transactions is a clear sign that the world is changing and adjusting regulations."

He said hardly a few hours before Parliament is set to vote Monday on a package of proposed reforms of the telecommunications services market which, inter alia, to restrict the ability of carriers to charge Internet companies like Facebook give them better service to manage traffic on the network.