OTT vendor LINE, a free call and messaging app, announced its registered LINE users has surpassed 400 million.
The number of registered users exceeded 300 million on November 11, 2013, with growing user numbers in countries such as North America and Europe adding to user bases in Spain, Southeast Asia, and other countries.
The amount of daily new users reached around 1.7 million per day.
Since the start of the new-year, the amount of countries with over 10 million registered users rose to a total of 10, including America, Korea, Malaysia, and Mexico.
Since the start of 2014, daily usage of chat messages reached 10 billion/day, sticker messages 1.8 billion/day, and phone calls over 12 million/day.
Some of the new features include LINE Call that allows users to call landlines and cellular phones for low prices, and LINE Creators Market, where users can create and sell their own original stickers.
Akira Morikawa, CEO of LINE Corporation, said: “One of our goals for 2014 was to reach over 500 million users and today we’ve been able reach the milestone of 400 million. I’d like to thank all our users and supporters for their help so far.”
For comparison hike, a free cross-platform messaging app, crossed the 15 million user mark recently.
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