Mr. Koum, making his first public appearance at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona after the acquisition by Facebook, was narrating WhatsApp’s journey since being founded five years ago.
Citing how useful the application has been to the over-450 million subscribers around the globe, Mr. Koum singled out Ghana as a country that is using the product in a way he and Brian Acton — the other Co-founder — never envisaged when they established the application.
According to him, though he had learnt of several uses of the service from across the globe, mails he had from Ghana that the university students are using the WhatsApp messenger to hold discussions with their lecturers, and even compare notes among themselves in a group, left him astounded.
Mr. Koum added that such application of his messenger, particularly, shows how important and indispensable the service has been since it was established.
On the future of the messenger, Mr. Koum said Whatsapp intends to introduce voice over its platform by summer as already being executed by BBM talk, Kakao talk, Viber etc. This means that with a simple data connection, WhatsApp users may be able to place phone calls to each other at minimal cost.
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