Viber CEO Ofir Eyal said the reasons for starting with these two countries first were strategic. The service is being launched first in two markets - Germany and Greece - with the plan being to extend that to the rest of Europe, and then Viber’s wider global footprint of 180 countries, this year and next. Services like payments to businesses likely will have some fees attached. Peer-to-peer transfers will be the first of these services to launch, and these will be free. Linked to other bank accounts as well as Visa and Mastercard, Payments wallets can in turn be used to make bill payments and buy goods, as well as transfer money to other individuals. Now it is making a move to double down on that strategy: it’s launching Payments on Viber - a new service that will let users set up digital wallets tied to their Viber accounts. Its audio quality during calls is pretty good by general standards.Viber, the messaging app owned by Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten, has long been dancing around the area of fintech, launching services like money transfer and chatbot payments in various countries over the years. Viber is a good alternative in the wide range of instant messaging apps for Android. Thanks to this, you can continue your conversations on your computer, making and receiving calls no matter where you are. It's better if this connection is WiFi or 3G, since using this app with a data plan can be more expensive than using the phone.Ī positive element is that besides the mobile app, it has a client for Windows and Mac. Once you install the app on your device, all you have to do is let it access your contact list, and in a matter of seconds you can start calling with pretty good audio quality and no expenses except the Internet service. In fact, within the app, you can find a sticker store where you can find new tags to buy and use in conversations. Thanks to Viber, you can share text messages, photographs, messages with videos or voice, locations, emoticons, and tags.

With it, you can send text messages and make phone calls for free, so long as you have an Internet connection. Viber, which was originally called Viber - Free Phone Calls, is an application which is similar to Skype.

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