With 160 million monthly active users, India is where WhatsApp has its greatest number of users, and adding video calling was the next logical step.
Asked how this feature would work in a country where internet connections could become choppy, Neeraj Arora head of business, WhatsApp told the Economic Times that his team had worked extensively to ensure that the app works well on different kinds of phones and slower 2G networks. “That’s what the focus was: if it works in India in different conditions, it will work everywhere else.
The important thing to note here is a lot of this work has been done by our own users. It’s crowdsourced, a lot of users were passionate about using WhatsApp in their own languages so we gave them a tool to help us translate WhatsApp in their own language,” he added.
The important thing to note here is a lot of this work has been done by our own users. It’s crowdsourced, a lot of users were passionate about using WhatsApp in their own languages so we gave them a tool to help us translate WhatsApp in their own language,” he added.Last updated: December 26th, 2025
