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Has anyone used this yet? The premise is that you can make free calls from your mobile to anywhere in the world as it uses your phone's internet connection rather than the phonecall allowance. The only caveat I can see is that the FAQ page says ''Data charges may apply''... http://www.whatsapp.com/faq/en/iphone/28041117
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Calm down guys, I know it's not a new fandangled whizzo gizmo, I have Skype and Facetime too, but not everyone I know does, hell, some of them even still buy newspapers. Anyways, after a recent WhatsApp update it mentioned that this 'Calling' was a new facility in the App, and I thought it would be ideal to use it to make standard phone calls esp overseas, thus avoiding roaming charges. My question is about the charges and how much data allowance a call is likely to use up, guess I'll have to ask my provider, or failing that just get an unlimited data usage SIM...

red devil Wrote:

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> > My question is about the charges and how much data

> allowance a call is likely to use up, guess I'll

> have to ask my provider, or failing that just get

> an unlimited data usage SIM...



Surely if you're using it whilst connected to wifi it wouldn't cost anything.

Otta Wrote:

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> Surely if you're using it whilst connected to wifi

> it wouldn't cost anything.


That's right, was thinking when I'm out and about and the 3G kicks in.

Thanks for the link, and Jeremy's too.

It's not a big deal, won't be doing much calling this way, but nice to know it's there and will hopefully cost nowt.

A few months ago I kept getting bills way above my monthly plan charge, turned out it was because I had the Flickr App on in the background...you live and learn.

skype, whatsapp, viber etc are proprietary, you need the other chap to have it on their phone be activated, logged in etc and I usually find that they're not without you using facebook, google messenger or even SMS to prompt them.


For convenience I tend to use localphone, a voip rerouting system so you only pay the local call charges, quite nifty.

http://www.localphone.com/


although i think skype may offer this sort of thing now....

ooh, the localphone route allows you to phone 0800 style numbers for free too!!


In fact when i was tryng to sort stuff out for the move in ireland all the numbers are 1800.....

Which means phoning from abroad it thinks you're dialling 00 353 (0)1 800 and puts you through to some random number in dublin, and half of them didn't even have a genuine non 1800 number which became a real issue until someone told me about localphone.

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