The instant messaging application now offers paid monthly subscription which gives access to exclusive features. This Premium offer is billed at 5.49 euros per month.
Telegram messaging will soon offer a paid plan. The messaging application, which has built its reputation on respecting the privacy of its users, has just passed the bar of 700 million active monthly users. To celebrate this occasion, it is launching its Telegram Premium offer, a monthly offer billed at 5.49 euros.
“This subscription funds Telegram and gives you access to additional exclusive features. All existing Telegram features remain free for everyone,” the editor says in the release note for the app’s latest update.
The arrival of this paid offer in the application is not really a surprise. A few weeks ago, Pavel Durov, the boss of Telegram had made it official in a publication posted on its discussion channel.
Indispensable to support the operating costs of the application
If some are likely to cringe, Pavel Durov has perfectly justified the decision to create a paid Premium offer, the only possible solution according to him to meet the demand of users to lift certain restrictions in the application.
“We have been asked by many to increase the current limits even further, so we have been looking for ways to allow you to go beyond what is already crazy. The problem is that if we removed all limits for everyone, our server and traffic costs would have become unmanageable. […]. After thinking about it, we realized that the only way to allow our most demanding fans to get more while keeping our existing features free is to make those high limits a paid option. he then declared.
Apart from backing the messenger financially, Telegram Premium subscribers can skip major limitations placed on the free version of the app. They can, for example, exchange files up to 4 GB in size and enjoy faster downloads without speed limits. This paid offer also allows you to subscribe to up to 1000 chat channels and connect to four accounts from any application. Thanks to it, you can also organize your exchanges in folders, save up to 20 personalized links in public t.me format, or even save 400 GIFs and 10 stickers in your favorites. In addition, the Premium subscription to Telegram allows voice messages to be transcribed into text and above all to be free of any advertising in the application.
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