Viber Messenger: What are the costs?

The Viber messaging service is also becoming increasingly popular in Germany. But what costs can actually arise? You can find out in this practical tip.

Viber - this can incur costs

• Viber is a messaging service that you can use to make calls. All communication between the individual users of the app is free of charge. In this case, it is sufficient to register with your phone number - similar to the competitor Whatsapp.
• But even if you only write messages or make calls within Viber, your telephone provider may incur costs for Internet use. You should be especially careful with tariffs without a data flat rate. However, if you have included data volume in your tariff, there are no additional fees for Viber - only the data volume is used.
• When you are abroad, make sure that you do not consume too much data, because different surfing limits apply to surfing abroad than within Germany. Calls and video chats in particular consume a lot of data.
• Viber costs are incurred when you use Viber Out to call people who have not installed Viber. To do this, however, you need a Viber-Out account and have to top up your credit beforehand. Phoning with non-Viber users is handled according to the prepaid principle.
• Depending on which country you use Viiber Out to call, there are different costs. Calls with German numbers incur 1.9 cents per minute, calls to Austria cost 12.2 cents and calls to Switzerland also cost 1.9 cents.

In the next article, you will learn how to hide your online status on Viber.