WhatsApp says Indians first in making video calls

Despite slow internet connections it seems that Indians love making video calls with WhatsApp. The chat app, which is now used by over a billion people across the world, has said that Indian users are first when it comes to making video calls. It also reveals that as of February 2017, there were over 200 million active WhatsApp users in India.
"India is the top country for video calling minutes with a total of over 50 million video calling minutes per day (made by Indian users)," said a WhatsApp spokesperson.
The chat app said that globally "over 340 million video calling minutes per day" are made. In total users make over 55 million video calls per day, noted the app, which is now owned by Facebook.
Although the figures are impressive, there is still a feeling that the WhatsApp calling feature -- both the voice and video -- hasn't taken off the way it was expected to. When WhatsApp rolled out voice calling, many had feared it would more or less replace the regular cellular calling for most users. But that hasn't happened. The same has turned out to be the case for the WhatsApp video calling, although given how easy it is to use the feature and how personal it could be -- think face-to-face -- and it seems that video calling has found more takers.
For WhatsApp, not all of its new features have turned out to be as popular as the video calling seems to be. Recently the company rolled out a new Status feature, which after the initial buzz subsided, has become a rarely used feature.


The chat app has also said that now it has over 200 million users in India. This signifies how important is the country for WhatsApp. This big user base is also the reason why WhatsApp is reportedly testing new Indian specific features in its app. There are talks that the company is hoping to introduce a new feature in WhatsApp that will help it connect business to people.

The big users base is also the reason why the WhatsApp is in a spotlight in India over its new privacy policy that purports to share data of users with Facebook. Last year WhatsApp, which is now owned by Facebook, had said that it will share some private user data including phones numbers with WhatsApp. That has been challenged in court by a couple of WhatsApp users in India and although the Delhi High Court ruled in favour of WhatsApp, the case is now going on in the Supreme Court.
Recently a Facebook lawyer said in court that if Indian users are so privacy-minded they ought to delete their Facebook and WhatsApp accounts and stop using these services. The comments from the lawyer came even as Facebook, in response to similar court challenge in Europe, has paused data sharing between WhatsApp and Facebook in several European countries.

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