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		johannes1234321 on Dec 11, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Beeper Mini is back > You also seem to be forgetting the most-populous country in the world – no WhatsApp there either. However in the 4th largest (Indonesia) everybody uses WhatsApp (at least a few years back) as Facebook offered free data to their services there (internet.org / "Free Basics") whereas iMessage would cost money for data traffic or SMS/MMS. Thus really different across countries and regions and social circles.

cfcosta on Dec 12, 2023 [–]

Same for the 5th, Brazil. Everyone uses WhatsApp here and has been more than a decade since the last time I've ever had to use sms (never even used mms).

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