What Wathsapp means is that they wanted to start billing by this year as you were severally notified but changed their mind and trying to introduce a new method of making money using multinational companies as targets. Its like they were charging money in some regions as earlier kick of the abandoned billing took place.

See the message I received from whatsapp

ritababe:


help me ask them oh, since five years ago wey i open whatsapp i never pay 1kobo.

You pay indirectly. When your whatsapp expires, they will ask you to upgrade it so by then they convert the $0.99 to data bundle then collect it from your data subscription. Please accept my little explanation

dampola:


You pay indirectly. When your whatsapp expires, they will ask you to upgrade it so by then they convert the $0.99 to data bundle then collect it from your data subscription. Please accept my little explanation

collect it from data subscription ke! How? you mean GLO, mtn, others are the ones paying them.

Hmmm.....dis is going 2b bad 4Nigerian users considering d way we almost abuse everytin eg d likes of mtn and dos crazy 4-5 digits number dat sends annoying msgs all d time..its goin 2b power draining for most phones too

For those of you asking how one pays, I think you pay with your data for every update but thank God for flash share & I think flash share is even the major reason for this lifetime free access as a lot of people no longer download the app( they rather use flash share). And again, the network providers will probably be paying watsapp all this time because you pay for the data you use & watsaap cannot render free service to network providers cos the users pay for the data.

dampola:


You pay indirectly. When your whatsapp expires, they will ask you to upgrade it so by then they convert the $0.99 to data bundle then collect it from your data subscription. Please accept my little explanation

forget payment for upgrading.....I didn't pay a cent for d last five or six updates I did....thanks to flash share, Xender, shareit and atimes Bluetooth.

have a rethink and come up with a plausible explanation.

adeniketina2015 explanation seems tenable but she affirmed dt it's under probability.

good day!

palz. pls kindly help me with this trash...... can't send WhatsApp voice notes via my android phone. pls.....any remedy?

Youngpo413:
Them dey pay for whatsapp before?

I wonder oooo, and if dem dey pay before, that means me I don dey enjoy the apps for free since 1900......lol.

my life time lol

If you really want to know neither you pay or not, when your data has finish . Then trying to make call or charge and what for really.

that's my white brothers bro. always innovating and creating wealth making live better while provide jobs. this timid Ones in Nigeria are only into politics and looting nothing more.

Lovexme:
You could have stated the 'catch' here. Ain't got no time to click that link mehn.

He would have stated it if he could but he won't cos there's actually no 'catch', he only wants to direct traffic to his blog.

donhils:

He would have stated it if he could but he won't cos there's actually no 'catch', he only wants to direct traffic to his blog.

Don't mind him.