VoIP on Facebook launched in the United Kingdom

After Canada, it is the turn of the United Kingdom of seeing the VoIP application on the Facebook chat. One way to counter competition applications such as WhatsApp.

WhatsApp, Viber, Line ... the free instant messaging application for smartphones are becoming more numerous. To safeguard its own messaging service, Facebook is now gradually integrate the messaging function VoIP ("Voice over IP" or "VoIP"), a technology that allows you to communicate by voice, as proposed by Skype .

This is Canada, at first, that a guinea pig since last January: Facebook has published an update to its iOS and Android messaging: users could then send voice messages for a period ranging up 'to one minute. The idea is also to make it easier conversations without having to type a long text on her phone, for example.

Adorn themselves facing WhatsApp  

The new Facebook application should extend U.S. territory soon. For the moment, it has been launched in the UK. In fact, the site TechCrunch reported that a spokesman for Facebook announced the availability of the service on iOS today for UK users: "You can call your friends in Facebook Messenger for free by clicking on the" I "in a private conversation, then pressing" Free Call ". 

Rumors about a possible takeover of WhatsApp by Facebook are indeed extinct, preferring Facebook to integrate its own VoIP service on his voice-mail.