Yes, its true WhatsApp is now going to serve their service for
absolutely free with lifetime validty and making it more useful while still not selling y third-party ads or spams.
Here's what they said on their blog:
"Nearly a billion
people around the world today rely on WhatsApp to stay in touch with
their friends and family. From a new dad in Indonesia sharing photos
with his family, to a student in Spain checking in with her friends
back home, to a doctor in Brazil keeping in touch with her patients,
people rely on WhatsApp to be fast, simple and reliable.
That's why we're happy to announce that WhatsApp will no longer charge
subscription fees. For many years, we've asked some people to pay a
fee for using WhatsApp after their first year. As we've grown, we've
found that this approach hasn't worked well. Many WhatsApp users don't
have a debit or credit card number and they worried they'd lose access
to their friends and family after their first year.
So over the next
several weeks, we'll remove fees from the different versions of our
app and WhatsApp will no longer charge you for our service.
Naturally, people might wonder how we plan to keep WhatsApp running
without subscription fees and if today's announcement means we're
introducing third-party ads. The answer is no.
Starting this year, we
will test tools that allow you to use WhatsApp to communicate with
businesses and organizations that you want to hear from. That could mean
communicating with your bank about whether a recent transaction was
fraudulent, or with an airline about a delayed flight. We all get
these messages elsewhere today – through text messages and phone calls
– so we want to test new tools to make this easier to do on WhatsApp,
while still giving you an experience without third-party ads and spam.
We hope you enjoy what's coming to WhatsApp, and we look forward to
your feedback."
Read it in their official blog: https://blog.whatsapp.com/615/Making-WhatsApp-free-and-more-useful
