When/will party/platoon chat/friend chat be available?

Condemned, on 11 January 2011 - 10:48 PM, said: Its a really annoying part of this game the absence of a proper chat system, all people just spam the main channel when in battle mode, this is fine if its a tank company game but if its a regular random game its really annoying.
Its not like you have any choice anyway, this often lead to people talking about comp random stuff and also to particular players whom they play with comp un-regarded to the gameplay and thats fine, I mean some social interaction is great but it should be in a private chat, for them and for rest.
This is a must have function in all mmos and its really lacking in WoT and it seems like a rather easy function to add.
So my question to the dev team is when will it be added?
/platoonchat /pc
/friend /f