It was widely celebrated yesterday when WhatsApp achieved 1 billion downloads yesterday at the Google Play Store. It basically makes the messenger application the most used around the world and this might just spark global carriers to start considering SMS options and focus on data services.
In most countries, WhatsApp is basically a norm and is the common mean of communication. Among the countries where relatively everyone with a smartphone uses WhatsApp includes India, South Africa, Singapore, Malaysia, the UK, US, Germany, France, India, Honduras and many more.
Heck, some minor carriers in third-world countries are already dropping SMS-rates entirely. The billion-mark achieved by WhatsApp makes it the second most downloaded non-Google app. Clearly, this is a communication phenomenon we are witnessing here.
