{"id":1024558,"date":"2026-07-29T10:01:31","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T04:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1024558"},"modified":"2026-07-29T10:34:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T05:04:28","slug":"whatsapp-launches-browser-based-calling-introduces-call-transfer-waiting-room-features","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/29\/whatsapp-launches-browser-based-calling-introduces-call-transfer-waiting-room-features\/","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp launches browser-based calling; introduces call transfer, waiting room features"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meta-owned WhatsApp on Tuesday launched web-based calling, allowing users to make and receive audio and video calls directly from their browsers without the need to download a desktop application. <\/p>\n<p>The feature is part of a suite of updates aimed at improving cross-device functionality. <\/p>\n<p>According to a WhatsApp blog post, the new web calling feature supports both one-on-one and group calls and includes access to screen sharing, reactions, and a dedicated calls tab for history and favourites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta-owned WhatsApp on Tuesday launched web-based calling, allowing users to make and receive audio and video calls directly from their browsers without the need to download a desktop application. The feature is part of a suite of updates aimed at improving cross-device functionality. According to a WhatsApp blog post, the new web calling feature supports both one-on-one and group calls and includes access to screen sharing, reactions, and a dedicated calls tab for history and favourites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,92,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1024558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-tribune","category-the-tribune"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1024558"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1024599,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024558\/revisions\/1024599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1024558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1024558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1024558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}