I'm from Portugal and I saw in the comments that many people use it here. In my experience I never used it. I know maybe two people that use it. But clearly my view must be totally off the reality because of the stuff I read here and in the article comments section.
I pay 5€ a month and have unlimited free SMS's for almost everybody in my network. And that's it. That's what I use.
I could see the problem of cross device messaging, but SMS are for that.
To use Whatapp I'd need internet and pay for that in my mobile plan. I don't want that.
Although I have free unlimited sms for people I contact to (and use it a lot) there's still a little problem, that normally it is only for people in the same mobile network as me. But not really a huge problem because those people are very few and I don't mind spending the money in my phone that I wouldn't use for anything else.
Oh the sms and calls for people in my network are all free, so I have always money not being used for anything in the phone card.
I pay 5€ a month and have unlimited free SMS's for almost everybody in my network. And that's it. That's what I use.
I could see the problem of cross device messaging, but SMS are for that.
To use Whatapp I'd need internet and pay for that in my mobile plan. I don't want that.
Although I have free unlimited sms for people I contact to (and use it a lot) there's still a little problem, that normally it is only for people in the same mobile network as me. But not really a huge problem because those people are very few and I don't mind spending the money in my phone that I wouldn't use for anything else.
Oh the sms and calls for people in my network are all free, so I have always money not being used for anything in the phone card.