this post was submitted on 17 Nov 2023
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Couple reasons:
WhatsApp was its own company, took advantage of an open market in EU where SMS (and "international" phone calls?) were extra rate charges on mobile phones. Once every one got accustomed to using whatsapp Meta took it over and now we're stuck with it.