No official decision to ban WhatsApp voice call: Egypt telecom minister

here is currently no official decision to ban the voice call service of mobile application WhatsApp or any another similar application, Egypt's Minister of Telecommunication Khaled Negm announced on Tuesday.

In a TV interview aired on CBC Extra TV channel Negm also added that the government does not monitor communications insisting it has no policing role.

Negm said citizens' communications are monitored only after a court order allows it, denying the ministry's involvment in any kind of social media or communications surveillance.

Last month Egypt's largest mobile service provider Vodafone raised questions in a letter sent to Egypt's telecommunications regulator about the legality of WhatsApp's free voice-calling feature due to be released later this year.