This question resolves to YES if I can both receive and send:
Text messages
Voice messages
Pictures
Between accounts on WhatsApp and Signal on or before Feb 1st without having to sign up to a third party bridging service.
For context, the EU's Digital Markets Act will go into effect September or October of this year, as soon as the necessary institutions approve.
It requires basic interoperability between Messaging Services, 3 months after they have been asked to implement it.
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The list of designated gatekeepers has not been released yet, while it will almost certainly include WhatsApp/Facebook (98%), I doubt it will include Signal (15%).
The DMA does not require that apps actively facilitate exchanging messages between services, only that they make endpoints available for other services to interact with. Even if both WhatsApp/Facebook and Signal were required to provide these, one of them would need to voluntarily take the initiative to "translate" between the two (Probably WA, 30%).
There is a six-month transition period after the act enters into force (October 2022) before it becomes applicable (April 2023). Even then it's not enforceable, since the designated gatekeepers won't be picked until late 2023 and those named won't have to actually comply until after another six-month transition period. So all of the above has to happen a year before any possible threat of punishment (1%)
When I plug those numbers in my calculator it makes a frowny face.
https://competition-policy.ec.europa.eu/sectors/ict/dma_en
https://element.io/blog/a-guide-to-navigating-the-digital-markets-act/
Looks like I was off by about a year: