How much mobile data does WhatsApp calls consume per minute

How much mobile data does WhatsApp calls consume per minute
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4 April, 2015, by Santiago Comment

WhatsApp calls are free as long as they are made through a Wi-Fi network. When using a limited mobile data plan, the consumption generated by these calls can be very high at certain times.

For now, the only way to know how much mobile data a WhatsApp call consumes is by doing a real test. The application itself offers a data meter in Settings > Account info > Network usage. There are also data consumption meters for Android on Google Play, such as 3G Watchdog, My data Manager u Onavo Count (The latter recommended by Facebook, through its mobile application).

The first estimates of the use of data generated by WhatsApp calls reveal that it can consume an average of 700KB (KiloBytes) per minute call. This is a fairly relative data that will depend on many factors, including the type and quality of internet connection. The image below reveals that WhatsApp calls could even consume more than twice as much data as other Internet calling (VoIP) applications, such as Facebook Messenger.

Use of data from VoIP applications, in “Kb” per minute. Less is better. Source: Android Authority

The information in the graph is far from conclusive, although it indicates that Whatspp is only below Skype in terms of data consumption. This makes sense because Skype, beyond requiring a high use of resources on a device, offers a high quality service in calls, something that requires a higher bandwidth. In this sense, WhatsApp should offer good call quality, beyond the latency that exists right now in the service (at least for now, after its recent massive launch).

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The use of data from WhatsApp calls is not something that only affects the user but also the mobile operators. In Ecuador, for example, WhatsApp calls have been blocked in certain operators in this country (which have not been specified), possibly due to this detail and the large number of users of the service.

Codec used by WhatsApp for calls
To accurately measure the data consumption generated by each call, it would be important to know the technology encoding / decoding that WhatsApp uses for calls (codec). The codec would help a lot to define data consumption more precisely and would also indicate the impact that the WhatsApp calling system has on the performance of the device, which at first glance does not seem to affect significantly, as it does with applications such as Skype.

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