Vodafone increases the data of its rates and WhatsApp will stop accounting

Vodafone announced today the changes to its rates that were rumored a few days ago: have increased the data that their customers have available at their current rates, going from 2GB, 4GB and 6GB of current rates to 6GB, 10GB and 20GBYes, in exchange for a small increase in the price of the plans. But perhaps the most striking and important thing for many is that the data consumed by messaging services such as WhatsApp or Telegram will cease to be counted in your consumption, so we can say that using these applications "will really be free." We give you more details below.

More data and a small price increase

The rates will take effect from April 28, although there are already many users who have our accounts updated to these amounts of data. The data increases that we can consume for free without speed reduction occur both in convergent rates (which include mobile, ADSL or fiber and television) and isolated mobile rates. Of course, this increase in data implies an increase in the price of the rate, which in the case of Vodafone One customers will be € 3 for those with the One S and One L rate, and € 5 for customers with One L rate.

Customers who do not have convergent rates but individual mobile rates will see the amounts increased uniformly and less, only € 2 more. The tables that we have placed just above these lines already include the amounts of data and updated prices that, as we say, will come into effect from April 28, although we insist that some users already have them applied, at least in terms of what The amount of data is concerned, not at the moment in prices.

Chat Zero: WhatsApp and Telegram no longer consume

But perhaps what many more will be interested in is that messaging applications, including WhatsApp and Telegram, will stop accounting for data usage.. This for many users is great news since they use their smartphones basically for these applications, and they will see their data consumption drastically reduced when this measure takes effect. In addition to these two messaging services, Vodafone will stop counting the data consumed by Message +, Line, We Chat and BlackBerry IM, as well as the SMS and MMS that we send. Could this happen with Netflix or HBO? Dreaming is free.