Tencent Holdings, China’s largest Internet company, dismissed over the weekend a rumor that it will start to charge its 300 million users for using WeChat, a popular free instant messaging application that has slashed into the business of China’s telecom operators.
“Since early this year, we have encountered various rumors,” Tencent’s WeChat team said in a statement on its official tweeter-like Weibo account on Friday.
Tencent listed three major rumors, with the latest one saying that it would charge WeChat users 0.05 yuan (under 1 US cent) for each instant message and 0.1 yuan (1.5 US cents) for each voice message sent via its platform, starting on the coming July 1.
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