Amitabh Kant, CEO of NITI Aayog, expressed that WhatsApp, a platform for sending end-to-end encrypted messages to others, has over 400 million monthly active users in India.
Kant disclosed the figures through his tweet which reads, “Delighted to interact with Will Cathcart Global Head of WhatsApp & release the book “A Billion Opportunities” With a billion mobiles, lowest data costs , highest mobile data consumption, average age of 29 & almost 400 mln users the future of What’s App is obviously in India.”
The Facebook-owned platform has also announced that its payments services will be launch in India at the end of 2019.
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While, other messaging platform in the similar graph comprises Telegram, Hike, Viber, WeChat, textPlus, Kik, Tango, LINE, Skype and Pinger.