Whatsapp Abroad Does it work? Is it free to talk on WhatsApp?

If you move to the United Kingdom or come on vacation you will be interested to know if you can use and talk on WhatsApp from here or from any country abroad.

Sending messages is something we are going to do every day. That's why you have wondered if you can use WhatsApp abroad and how much money it can cost you.

In this post, we will explain everything about using WhatsApp abroad and with your English mobile number.

WhatsApp is one of the most used mobile applications in Spain but, although it seems a lie, in England this application is not as popular. Only 39% of English mobiles have WhatsApp installed, while in Spain 97% have it downloaded.

Even so, although the English do not use it so much, for us Spaniards who are in England, WhatsApp is an essential application that we will download to communicate with our friends and family who are in Spain.

Of course. Being an application on your mobile, you will have no problem using it in any country.  You only need an internet connection, either through wifi or mobile data In the case that you need to hire the internet for your home, we leave you a post with information.

Therefore, you can send free messages, without paying any money, to anyone in the part of the world that is, just as they can send them to you. The fact that you are in another country does not change anything.

If you are going to call without using WhatsApp you should know the country codes in England.

Whatever company you have you will be able to use WhatsApp with your free English sim card, without paying any money.

In the case of Giffgaff, you just have to have an internet connection to start using it as usual. If it does not work for you, it is because you probably have not configured your mobile phone's internet for a new sim card.

The same happens if what you want is to call through WhatsApp. You don't have to do anything different from how you would do it in Spain.

I have put my English mobile card but the WhatsApp still appears with my Spanish number, why is it? How to speak on WhatsApp abroad?

This is the typical doubt we all have. Something that we usually forget, is that the number that appears on your Whatsapp is actually a “username” with which you have registered and that usually coincides with our mobile number.

Therefore, changing the sim card has no influence on the username we created when we installed it.

It's like Twitter or Skype, that you use it from Windows or Mac will not change our username since it has no relationship. It doesn't matter if you put another sim or that you don't even have it on and you're using it with Wi-Fi. Your username will always be the same.

In fact, being abroad and having WhatsApp appear with your Spanish number even if you put another sim card in the country is a great advantage, so you don't have to give your new number to all your contacts.

In case you want your WhatsApp to match your English mobile number, you just have to uninstall it and reinstall it by entering your new number.

How to add a number to WhatsApp? It is not that you have to do something different from when you are in Spain, just add the country code in front (+34) so ​​that the mobile recognizes that it is a Spanish phone number.

What I do is have my English mobile number with which to send free SMS to my friends from here in England, and my WhatsApp with my Spanish number to speak for free with my Spanish friends. Better impossible!

All this can be extrapolated with any other mobile application, since they all work through mobile internet data, regardless of the sim card inserted.

To catch up while you're there you may also be interested in having a television. Know that to see the English you must pay a license.

If you want to watch Spanish, you can do it through a VPN and if when you return, you want to continue watching England's TV, you can also do it.