Good news for hikers! free group calls in the offing

NEW DELHI: Hike Messenger, India’s home-grown messenger application, has added a free group calling feature that would connect up to 100 people in a call and is expected to roll out on iOS, Windows later this year.

The launch of this feature is a part of hike's marketing campaign that will reach over 200 million users across the country. Consumers can get this feature by upgrading to the latest version of hike 4.0.4, which is available free on the Google Play Store.

To use this feature, hikers need to tap on the Hike Call button inside an existing group chat and once initiated, hike calls out to every member in the group automatically and the call starts as soon as one person gets connected.

Kavin Bharti Mittal, Founder and CEO, Hike Messenger, said: “Many of us at hike were quite frustrated by how hard it is to make a group call today. Adding someone to an already existing call is extremely tedious and even starting a conference call is quite a painful process. Today, we’re going to change that with the introduction of group calls on hike. Now with the tap of a single button, you can connect up to 100 people in one call.”

With the introduction of group calling, Hike Messenger has also dropped the beta tag on VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) officially rolling out the feature.