The app that is used by over 90 million people in Brazil – and same percentage of internet users – was quickly unblocked.
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The court said WhatsApp had been asked several times to cooperate in a criminal investigation, but had repeatedly failed to comply. A tweet from rival messaging service, Telegram, says over 1.5 million Brazilians have signed up to their service since the court decision.
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The shutdown order came after the Sao Paulo State Justice Tribunal in São Bernardo do Campo determined WhatsApp had not complied with two earlier court orders issued this summer, Reuters reported. WhatsApp is causing headaches for Brazil’s telecoms companies because it offers a free alternative to the country’s high cell phone rates, especially for youths and the poor. The Brazilian phone companies are happy to go along with the court’s ruling. “Until today, Brazil has been an ally in creating an open Internet”, Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said in a post on his Facebook page. “Brazilians have always been among the most passionate in sharing their voice online”, he wrote.
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It was the most downloaded app a year ago, in the world’s fourth-largest smartphone market.
A court order that temporarily banned WhatsApp in Brazil has been cut short after a judge found the ruling unreasonable.
WhatsApp has drawn the ire of operators in Brazil, who have lobbied the government to impose limitations on free calls made via the app, arguing that the process is illegal by virtue of being unregulated.
WhatsApp was reportedly ordered multiple times over the summer to halt its service, and after failing to do so, judge Sandra Regina Nostre Marques ordered the service to be blocked from Brazil’s end.
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The suspension of WhatsApp’s instant message and Internet phone administration brought about shock in Latin America’s biggest nation, where the organization estimated that it has 100 million individual users, and prompted furious trades on the floor of Congress. Facebook’s Messenger was not affected.
