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by lazide 209 days ago
In most of Asia, Latin America, Africa, and about half of Europe?

You’d be pretty stuck. I guess SMS might work, but it wouldn’t for most businesses (they use the WhatsApp business functionality, there is no SMS thing backing it).

Most people don’t even use text anymore. China has it’s own Apps, but everyone else uses WhatsApp exclusively at this point.
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hermanzegerman 209 days ago
Nobody uses WhatsApp Business in Germany, Austria or Switzerland in a way that you would be stuck without
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balder1991 208 days ago
Brazil had many times a judge punished WhatsApp by blocking it in Brazil, and all the times that happened, Telegram gained hundreds of thousands of new users.
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bigbuppo 208 days ago
Really? Please indicate your source for that claim that "most people don't even use text anymore" because I have never once in my life been asked about WhatsApp, but have implemented a few dozen SMS integrations after all the annoying rules changes where you have to ask "mother may I" and submit a stool sample to send an SMS message from something other than a phone.
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lazide 208 days ago
Which country are you in?
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