It's currently available to a very limited number of users, but will expand in the future. Back in early March, it emerged that WhatsApp would be launching...
When I got my first phone (an early android) I remember they used to give 1 year service for free. But at the end of the year they would give another year for free (not explicitly but they didn’t stop service)
I used to pay once or twice anyway since it was less than one 1 USD at that time. (Long before facebook purchased it)
Interestingly WhatsApp used to be an exclusively premium service, I remember buying three years of it in around 2011
When I got my first phone (an early android) I remember they used to give 1 year service for free. But at the end of the year they would give another year for free (not explicitly but they didn’t stop service)
I used to pay once or twice anyway since it was less than one 1 USD at that time. (Long before facebook purchased it)
I also remember agonising over paying a quid and feeling like a jammy bastard as the service continued after I didn’t cough up