How to go 'invisible' on WhatsApp without deleting app

referring to This is because the moment you open WhatsApp, you are shown as 'Online' to your contacts. Now, officially, there is not a one-tap solution to silence WhatsApp for a limited time period. But this article will help you beat the system without even downloading an additional app or disabling internet or silencing your mobile phone.For those unaware, the easiest way to silence WhatsApp and go invisible is by downloading a Firewall app like Mobiwol or NoRoot Firewall on Android. * Disable WhatsApp tune: There's no option to select 'No Ringtone' for your WhatsApp messages or calls. To know whether you have received any WhatsApp text you will have to open WhatsApp inside the app menu and then check.To stop WhatsApp from hogging your mobile data, go to your phone settings (under the general Android settings) >> Apps>> Open list of Apps>>Select WhatsApp.

WhatsApp: BSNL's Wings app takes on JioChat, Hike, Viber; to integrate WhatsApp soon, Telecom News, ET Telecom

NEW DELHI: State-owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited ( BSNL ) is planning to include WhatsApp to its much awaited disruptive Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) offering, Wings that also allows BSNL subscribers to use rival networks to make voice and video calls."We will soon integrate short message service (SMS) and configure WhatsApp to Wings app," BSNL chairman Anupam Shrivastava told ETTelecom, adding that the app-based service would be available from July 25.This virtually means that the state-owned telco using a separate numbering series for Internet telephony will also allow subscribers to authenticate and use WhatsApp service via a new number provided for Wings app.BSNL with its new app that allows consumers to make unlimited video and voice calls on any telco's data or Wi-Fi network, is strategically trying to take on arch rival's Reliance Jio's JioChat as well as popular over-the-top (OTT) apps such as WhatsApp, Hike Viber , WeChat and Facebook Messenger The service which also allows unlimited local and national voice calls at merely Rs 1099 for a year, also gives a flexibility to users to dial any number and connect their landline to receive or make seamless calls from anywhere.The VoIP users of apps like WhatsApp, Hike or Facebook Messenger could make video and voice calls within the same mobile apps installed on their devices, but not to a mobile or landline."BSNL customers can avail this service either registering online or through 700 customers service centres (CSC) across the country in addition to a franchise network of more than 6 lakh retailers," the top official said.The state-run telecom operator sees the Internet telephony as a big disruption in India's telecom space, and is also planning to make available a tutorial on YouTube for a step-by-step guide to subscribers willing to use Wings app.Similar to other Internet-based apps, mobile users worldwide can make calls to India after downloading the Wings app, and the VoIP service will use a different mobile numbering scheme that already exists with the state-run carrier.BSNL Wings leverages IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) architecture and Next Generation Network (NGN) which transforms voice, data and videos into IP packets."We are putting new strategies and plans to solidify BSNL's position in the current telecom market landscape," upbeat Shrivastava said.In the era of hyper competition where every operator's revenue is shrinking, BSNL not only stands firmly, but able to increase its market share by nearly 2%, he added.The industry group Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) that represents Bharti Airtel , Vodafone India and Reliance Jio Infocomm, raised strong reservations against BSNL's initial proposal to start Internet telephony.In January 2017, the Delhi-based lobby group in a letter to Trai argued that BSNL's limited fixed mobile service use caller-line identification (CLI) of landlines for making calls from mobiles actually evade interconnect charges (IUC).The state-run telco, however, in the absence of regulation, had to shun its aggressive plans to launch VoIP app then.Subsequently, the regulator issued a consultation paper to determine setting up of termination charges for such Internet-based calls.In May, this year the Telecom Commission, a highest decision making body of Department of Telecom (DoT), had approved that firms having a valid telecom licence can provide app-based calling service.

India threatens WhatsApp with legal action after hoaxes on the app led to lynchings

As it stated in The deadly incident was the latest in a flood of deadly lynchings across the country sparked by hoaxes on social media — and now the Indian government is threatening WhatsApp with legal action over them. "Rampant circulation of irresponsible messages in large volumes on their platform have not been addressed adequately by WhatsApp," says the statement. "If (WhatsApp) remain mute spectators they are liable to be treated as abettors and thereafter face consequent legal action." The Facebook-owned messaging app has come under intense scrutiny in recent months over hoaxes and disinformation circulating on its platform, leading to sometimes deadly mob violence. There have reportedly been at least 20 lynchings in the last two months caused by child abduction allegations, according to The Guardian.