Update: Neeraj Arora, Head of Business Development for WhatsApp informs us (via WhatsApp, incidentally), that the company now has 30 million user monthly active users in India. Earlier Today: WhatsApp has inked its second telco deal in India: Tata Docmomo will offer unlimited WhatsApp usage to its subscribers, for Rs 15 for 15 days. The telco has pay per site plans, and while WhatsApp hasn't yet made an appearance in that listing, a commercial uploaded on YouTube (here) has the details. Tata Docomo offers site plans to customers, with Gmail+Gtalk, Yahoo mail+Yahoo messenge, Rediffmail, Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Orkut (people still use Orkut?) and Nimbuzz priced at Rs 10 for 200 MB over 30 days. In that context, WhatsApp, which would cost a customer Rs 30 for 30 days, does appear to have a higher pricing than others, even enough it is for unlimited usage. Reliance Communications had, a little over a year ago, launched a WhatsApp plan for its GSM subscribers, pricing unlimited usage of WhatsApp for Rs 16 per month to its users, as a part of a promotional deal, as a part of a special tariff plan. It's taken WhatsApp a year to close its second deal, and it's possible that the exclusive arrangement with Reliance was for a year. Neeraj Arora, business development head at WhatsApp had recently mentioned that the service has crossed 25 million monthly active users in India, up from 20 million in August 2013. This is still significantly (and surprisingly) smaller than the 84 million…
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