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Re:Germany's data chief tells ministries WhatsApp is a no-go by zelphirkalt on Monday May 18, 2020 @05:11AM (#23220139)
Connectivity is what your phone has. It has nothing to do with Whatsapp. Whatsapp does not add anything to your connectivity.

Perhaps you mean "server availability/reliability"?

The only thing Whatsapp could do, without reaching deeply into the system, is to retry sending messages over and over, until they are sent. If other messengers give up early, then perhaps that could create a false impression of improved connectivity.

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Re:Germany's data chief tells ministries WhatsApp is a no-go by WanderPanda on Monday May 18, 2020 @06:18AM (#23220553)
You can do a lot with UDP packages as Mateix is proving

https://matrix.org/blog/2019/03/12/breaking-the-100-bps-barr...

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Re:Germany's data chief tells ministries WhatsApp is a no-go by zelphirkalt on Monday May 18, 2020 @05:54AM (#23220398)
Is this not correct?

Do you claim WA reaches that deeply into the system on phones?

Not sure whom I poked the wrong way this time, but it would surely be good to have explanation.

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