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After moving to Portugal from UK, and terrible experience with local telecoms provider MEO (lies and horrific bills) I have to use VOIP. Recently I’ve switched
by garyclarke27 8y ago
After moving to Portugal from UK, and terrible experience with local telecoms provider MEO (lies and horrific bills) I have to use VOIP.
Recently I’ve switched to using WhatsApp instead of Skype for most voice calls, curious if others are doing the same??
Audio Quality is mostly good and it’s much easier to find contacts than with Skype, because it’s based on their mobile number not a Skype ID.
On monetisation I would pay for voice calls to landlines/mobiles.
Also maybe they could do some kind of deal for international data roaming packages linked to a separate WhatsApp number. Predictable reasonable costs for voice and data - linked to a single mobile number - is still a major unsolved problem for travellers.
- umichguy 8y agoI am in the UK/ EU as well, my friends and I mostly use Whatsapp, FB messenger, Facetime for voice/video calls (especially when traveling/roaming) as most of them use this. Skype is mainly used for business or other "non-quick" purposes.Quite a few of them don't even have Skype enabled in the "always on" mode, open and login only when needed, unlike the others I mentioned.
- siquick 8y agoI always find the voice calls on WA much lower in volume than normal phone calls.
- nicoburns 8y agoHardly anyone I know uses skype anymore, due to their call quality being significantly worse than the competition, and it eating up battery life. Facebook Messenger and whatsapp dominate the home market. Zoom.us, slack, hangouts and others are popular for business.