Who pays more During Video/Voice Call?

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I was completely away the whole day, the day that I thought I'd engage fully here because I wasn't going to work. This thing happens to me often, I'd plan out to make my free day productive here but it usually turn the opposite.

I woke up today with my task for the day all planned out on my head, but someone stepped in from nowhere to steal the whole of the day from me. It all started with normal chat on WhatsApp and moved to Whatsapp voice and video calls. It was just like someone was controlling me with a remote because I stayed on bed till 11:00am before I could get up to brush and take my bathe. After like two to three hour on laundry, she came up again with more intensed calls and I couldn't resist it because it "sweeting" me as well. Lol🤣.

My data got exhausted and I was happy because that will be a good means for me to escape the call but before I knew it, she had transferred 1gb to my line and I was shocked. We continued and stayed online with the calls(voice and video call) for a long while to the extent that I missed church in the evening.😭

The funny that is that, if you check what we were discussing, it wasn't so reasonable. Maybe that's how God ordained my day to be. We ended the the talks and call in the evening and when I checked the durations we used on call, it marvelled me, like if this is to be charged on normal airtime,,,,the caller must have spent thousands of naira. But it's all good that we used data call(whatsapp call).

This evening (at the time of writing), I went to nairaland to check if could get what to write and I found a thread about a guy asking to know WHO PAYS MORE IN A WHATSAPP CALL, is it the caller or the reciever?

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To some people this question looks funny but deep down you don't have the answer. A lot of people will say it's the caller that will pay more because he initiated the call just as it works with normal call.

The guy posted the thread said;

He received a WhatsApp call from his girlfriend and the call literally lasted like a flash, the lady told him to call her back on WhatsApp call because she's not having enough data to call.

Do you get that? The lady was economizing her data by not initiating the call, instead he asked the guy to call her back.

Before going to read comments, my Little knowledge about this internet calls is that, the charges are done on the data and works equally on both sides, i.e it doesn't matter who initiated the call, the charges(data) are being deducted from not ends. The only difference it may have is when one has low rate on the setting of the app.

Look at it;

We have a botton on WhatsApp where we switch the the rate of data usage on calls, so if you turn it on, that means it will consume less and if it's off, it'll consume more.

So the call charges differs when one has high rate call and the other with less rate call.

This guy said it all;

Aside this, some people still believes that the charges are being traced down to the server(telecommunication) they're using. Like here in Nigeria, some people believe that MTN shallows data like water, so if you use MTN for data's, you'll spend more.

Though to some extent, the charges are related with the server used IF ONLY the plan of the network is the type that consumes data more others. Let's say a plan that uses 1.5k/kb can not be compare I with a plan that uses 5k/kb.

After reading this,I quickly asked my brother to know his idea and I got the answer as expected, he said it's the caller that spends/pays more during calls with data.

Now let's hear your view, who do you think that pays more during WhatsApp/data calls, the CALLER or RECEIVER?? Drop your answers on the comment section.

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Thanks for reading

3rd June 2022

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